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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Seeking a KVM benchmark
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2014 08:17:54 +0100
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On 07/11/2014 07:27, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> Is there an easy benchmark that's sensitive to the time it takes to
> round-trip from userspace to guest and back to userspace?  I think I
> may have a big speedup.

The simplest is vmexit.flat from
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm-unit-tests.git

Run it with "x86/run x86/vmexit.flat" and look at the inl_from_qemu
benchmark.

Paolo