RE: [PATCH V2 0/2] measure SMI cost (user)

From: Liang, Kan
Date: Mon May 29 2017 - 13:06:23 EST



>
> On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 02:52:39PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 02:46:37PM +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> >
> > > for some reason I can't get single SMI count generated, is there a
> > > setup/bench that would provoke that?
> >
> > Not having SMIs is a good thing ;-)
> >
> > Not sure we can tickle them in a reliable way.
>
> yea I saw some counts last time, now just zero so I was wondering if it's
> working
>

We have internal test case which can generate SMI, but I cannot publish
the test case. Sorry about that.

The example in the change log is from the real test (Only the SMI cycles%
number is fake). I believe it works.

Thanks,
Kan