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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH kvm-unit-tests] pmu: fixes for Sandy Bridge hosts
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2013 08:33:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51AC38A9.5010703@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130602153209.GJ24773@redhat.com>

Il 02/06/2013 17:32, Gleb Natapov ha scritto:
> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 07:43:07PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> This patch includes two fixes for SB:
>>
>> * the 3rd fixed counter ("ref cpu cycles") can sometimes report
>>   less than the number of iterations
>>
> Is it documented? It is strange for "architectural" counter to behave
> differently on different architectures.

It just counts the CPU cycles.  If the CPU can optimize the loop better,
it will take less CPU cycles to execute it.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-03  6:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-30 17:43 [PATCH kvm-unit-tests] pmu: fixes for Sandy Bridge hosts Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-30 17:43 ` [PATCH] " Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-30 17:45   ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-06-02 15:32 ` [PATCH kvm-unit-tests] " Gleb Natapov
2013-06-03  6:33   ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2013-06-03  6:38     ` Gleb Natapov
2013-06-03  7:08       ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-06-03  7:38         ` Gleb Natapov
2013-06-03  7:44           ` Paolo Bonzini

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