Re: [PATCH] KVM: VMX: add tracepoint for vpids

From: Davidlohr Bueso
Date: Mon Mar 12 2012 - 06:29:15 EST


On Mon, 2012-03-12 at 10:22 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 03/11/2012 05:57 PM, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> > From: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > Add a new tracepoint for vpid allocation and freeing associated to all vCPUs.
> >
>
> Why?
>

We have been using this tracepoint for some time now to help debug vpids
and simulating tagged TLB behavior and performance. This gets to be non
trivial when working with large amounts of guests and vCPUs.

Thanks,
Davidlohr

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