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@@ -85,4 +85,14 @@ The options for the [PerfCounters] section are:
\li clock: sets the type of clock used when calculating work_time
('thread' or 'monotonic').
+
+\section pc_perfmonitor Performance Monitor
+
+See \ref perfmonitor for some details of using a ControlPort-based
+monitor application, gr-perf-monitorx, for visualizing the
+counters. This application is particularly useful in learning which
+blocks are the computationally complex blocks that could use extra
+optimization or work to improve their performance. It can also be used
+to understand the current 'health' of the application.
+
*/