[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] xen: core dom0 support

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>]

* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> Yeah - it was Jeremy expressed doubt in the numbers, not me.
>
> Mainly because I was seeing the instruction and cycle counts 
> completely unchanged from run to run, which is implausible.  
> They're not zero, so they're clearly measurements of 
> *something*, but not cycles and instructions, since we know 
> that they're changing.  So what are they measurements of?  And 
> if they're not what they claim, are the other numbers more 
> meaningful?

cycle count not changing in a macro-workload is not plausible. 
Instruction count not changing can happen sometimes - if the 
workload is deterministic (which this one is) and we happen to 
get exactly the same number of timer irqs during the test. But 
it's more common that it varies slightly - especially on SMP 
where task balancing can be timing-dependent and hence is noise.

        Ingo

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