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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony-rdkfGonbjUSkNkDKm+mE6A@public.gmane.org>
To: Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
Cc: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org,
	Dan <berkovid-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: performance specs on VT-x vmenter/exit
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 13:56:16 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <475853E0.7080005@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47584832.9010708-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>

Avi Kivity wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Have a look at user/test/x86/vmexit.c, which does exactly that.
>>>
>>>   
>>
>> That only gives you the combined count of a vmenter and vmexit.
>
> Right; furthermore it measures kvm overhead and not just instruction 
> latency.

True.  Also, I don't know what Dan is looking to measure, but the cost 
of vmexits will varying depending on the reason for exit.  vmexit.c uses 
cpuid() which I suspect is slower than vmexit or pio but faster than 
pf.  It would be interesting to measure the individual exit reasons.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori



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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-12-06 19:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-06 18:09 performance specs on VT-x vmenter/exit Dan
     [not found] ` <fe801d6f0712061009r7b6c64b5qa1ad17722036301b-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2007-12-06 18:36   ` Avi Kivity
     [not found]     ` <47584142.10600-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2007-12-06 18:49       ` Anthony Liguori
     [not found]         ` <4758442B.8060401-rdkfGonbjUSkNkDKm+mE6A@public.gmane.org>
2007-12-06 19:06           ` Avi Kivity
     [not found]             ` <47584832.9010708-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2007-12-06 19:56               ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
     [not found]                 ` <475853E0.7080005-rdkfGonbjUSkNkDKm+mE6A@public.gmane.org>
2007-12-06 21:17                   ` Dan

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