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From: Tony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com>
To: George Dunlap <dunlapg@umich.edu>
Cc: Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] 2/3] [TOOLS][XENTRACE] Update tools to write data to disk in a known endian'ness.
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 16:43:47 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061201054347.GI27551@bakeyournoodle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <de76405a0611300827w271b8b8ya4f374824f4b1230@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 11:27:27AM -0500, George Dunlap  wrote:
> Do you have an idea how much extra cpu this takes for high-bandwidth 
> tracing?

I don't imagine that hton*() are that expensive, and fwrite already
buffers intreranll for 128k writes so with these patches you won't be
touching the disk anymore often.
 
> I'm using xentrace for performance analysis, and it's already got a
> measurable impact due to the disk bandwidth and copying.  I'd like to
> keep that as minimal as possible.

To be honnest I'm not doing any tracing, this patchset is the start
required to use xentrace on PPC.

Yours Tony

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-01  5:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-30  5:59 [RFC][PATCH] 0/3] [V2] Update xentrace to be compatable with PPC Tony Breeds
2006-11-30  5:59 ` [RFC][PATCH] 1/3] [XEN] Use explicit bit sized fields for exported xentrace data Tony Breeds
2006-11-30 13:02   ` Mark Williamson
2006-11-30 16:58   ` George Dunlap 
2006-11-30 17:03     ` Keir Fraser
2006-12-01  2:29       ` Mark Williamson
2006-12-01 11:32         ` Jimi Xenidis
2006-12-01 17:54         ` George Dunlap 
2006-12-01 18:37           ` Keir Fraser
2006-12-05 16:54             ` Mark Williamson
2006-12-05 20:05               ` George Dunlap
2006-12-06 16:10                 ` [RFC][PATCH] 1/3] [XEN] Use explicit bit sized fieldsfor " Ian Pratt
2006-12-07  2:43                   ` Mark Williamson
2006-12-07  5:29                     ` Tony Breeds
2006-12-07 10:32                   ` Keir Fraser
2006-12-07 14:21                     ` Ian Pratt
2006-12-07 18:25                       ` George Dunlap
2006-12-08 10:52                         ` [RFC][PATCH] 1/3] [XEN] Use explicit bit sizedfieldsfor " Ian Pratt
2006-12-08 20:28                           ` George Dunlap 
2006-12-04 18:20           ` [RFC][PATCH] 1/3] [XEN] Use explicit bit sized fields for " Mark Williamson
2006-12-12 17:29         ` LTTng Xen port Mathieu Desnoyers
2006-12-12 21:20           ` Ian Pratt
2006-12-12 22:14             ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2006-12-13  2:25               ` Tony Breeds
2006-12-15  5:02                 ` Mark Williamson
2006-12-28  3:08           ` M.A. Williamson
2007-03-09  1:20           ` LTTng Xen port : finally in a repository near you Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-06-25  8:43             ` INAKOSHI Hiroya
2007-06-27  0:37               ` Mark Williamson
2007-06-27 16:22                 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-06-27 16:25                   ` Keir Fraser
2007-06-27 16:14               ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-06-28  5:07                 ` INAKOSHI Hiroya
2007-06-28  6:58                   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-06-28 12:32                     ` INAKOSHI Hiroya
2007-06-28 15:08                       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-06-29  0:19                         ` INAKOSHI Hiroya
2006-11-30  5:59 ` [RFC][PATCH] 3/3] [TOOLS][XENTRACE] Various tidyups to xentrace tools Tony Breeds
2006-11-30 12:57   ` Mark Williamson
2006-12-01  5:39     ` Tony Breeds
2006-11-30  5:59 ` [RFC][PATCH] 2/3] [TOOLS][XENTRACE] Update tools to write data to disk in a known endian'ness Tony Breeds
2006-11-30 13:12   ` Mark Williamson
2006-12-01  5:23     ` Tony Breeds
2006-12-04 18:22       ` Mark Williamson
2006-11-30 16:27   ` George Dunlap 
2006-12-01  5:43     ` Tony Breeds [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-12-04  3:47 [RFC][PATCH] 0/3] [V3] Update xentrace to be compatable with PPC Tony Breeds
2006-12-04  3:47 ` [RFC][PATCH] 2/3] [TOOLS][XENTRACE] Update tools to write data to disk in a known endian'ness Tony Breeds

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