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

[Avi Kivity]

On 03/12/2012 01:29 PM, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> 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.

I don't follow.  Can you give an example of when this tracepoint would
be useful?

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