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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] unit-tests: Add tests to measure svm instruction
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On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 03:56:49PM +0200, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> here are two patches for the svm unit-test framework that measure the
> latency of the emulated vmrun, vmload, and vmsave instructions as well
> as the latency of emulated vmexits.
> 
> On my Phenom II X6 1090T running in P0 it produces output like this:
> 
>     Latency VMRUN : max: 140956 min: 6770 avg: 6819
>     Latency VMEXIT: max: 141042 min: 7475 avg: 7575
> latency_run_exit: PASS
>     Latency VMLOAD: max: 23248 min: 1915 avg: 1925
>     Latency VMSAVE: max: 130888 min: 1917 avg: 1955
> latency_load_save: PASS
> 
> These two tests report the tsc-cycles between events. Each latency is
> measured one million times (which explains the large -max values).
> 
> 	Joerg

Applied, thanks.