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From: Andi Kleen <andi-Vw/NltI1exuRpAAqCnN02g@public.gmane.org>
To: avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org
Cc: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org,
	Markus.Armbruster-5C7GfCeVMHo@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: Performance monitoring units and KVM
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:05:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <p73myqn5gug.fsf@bingen.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47A0B6DF.40208-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org> (Avi Kivity's message of "Wed\, 30 Jan 2008 19\:41\:51 +0200")


> Is there really a requirement to profile several userspace programs, on 
> several guests, simultaneously? 

Since guests affect each others performance (e.g. one guest can push
the data of another guest out of cache) profiling over guests makes
a lot of sense. Otherwise you cannot easily diagnose any situations
where a guest affects another guests' performance negatively.

>The usual argument for profiling over gus
 If not, passing through the PMU will 
> work best, with the additional advantage that guests will not need 
> modification (so you can run Windows with VTune, for example).

Ideally you would support both.

-Andi

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-01-30 18:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-30 17:06 Performance monitoring units and KVM Markus Armbruster
     [not found] ` <87wsprxmyb.fsf-A7mx1g9ivIOttUaS3K59qNi2O/JbrIOy@public.gmane.org>
2008-01-30 17:41   ` Avi Kivity
     [not found]     ` <47A0B6DF.40208-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2008-01-30 18:05       ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-01-30 18:23       ` Balaji Rao
     [not found]         ` <200801302353.19872.balajirrao-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2008-01-30 18:14           ` Avi Kivity
     [not found]             ` <47A0BE8F.4090508-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2008-01-30 18:26               ` Andi Kleen
     [not found]                 ` <p73ir1b5fvy.fsf-KvMlXPVkKihbpigZmTR7Iw@public.gmane.org>
2008-01-30 19:14                   ` Balaji Rao
     [not found]                     ` <200801310044.11055.balajirrao-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2008-01-31  3:12                       ` Andi Kleen
     [not found]                         ` <20080131031232.GB27115-qrUzlfsMFqo/4alezvVtWx2eb7JE58TQ@public.gmane.org>
2008-01-31  3:44                           ` Performance monitoring units and KVM II Andi Kleen
2008-01-31  7:12                           ` Performance monitoring units and KVM Balaji Rao
2008-01-30 18:55               ` Balaji Rao
2008-01-30 19:55       ` Markus Armbruster
     [not found]         ` <87fxwfw0jn.fsf-A7mx1g9ivIOttUaS3K59qNi2O/JbrIOy@public.gmane.org>
2008-01-31  7:03           ` Avi Kivity
     [not found]             ` <47A172D4.6040505-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2008-01-31 15:42               ` Markus Armbruster
     [not found]                 ` <87odb2gfx5.fsf-A7mx1g9ivIOttUaS3K59qNi2O/JbrIOy@public.gmane.org>
2008-01-31 16:37                   ` Avi Kivity

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