From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a new profiler to autotest, kvm_stat Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 08:35:56 +0200 Message-ID: <4B49754C.2030309@redhat.com> References: <1263081583-3277-1-git-send-email-lmr@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: autotest@test.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, mtosatti@redhat.com To: Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:46491 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751705Ab0AJGgH (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Jan 2010 01:36:07 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1263081583-3277-1-git-send-email-lmr@redhat.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 01/10/2010 01:59 AM, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues wrote: > In order to get kvm stats during the kvm tests execution, > a new profiler was created, kvm_stat. It's a simple profiler > that keeps an instance of the kvm_stat program running > during the test's execution, writing results on the profiling > directory. > > It would be better to access debugfs directly, and even better to use the perf facilities; eventually kvm_stat will be removed in their favour. -- I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this signature is too narrow to contain.