Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 3/5] x86/pvclock: add vsyscall implementation

[Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/27/2009 08:20 PM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> On 10/27/09 10:29, Dan Magenheimer wrote:
>    
> > Is there any way for an application to conclusively determine
> > programmatically if the "fast vsyscall" pvclock is functional
> > vs the much much slower gettimeofday/clock_gettime equivalents?
> >
> > If not, might it be possible to implement some (sysfs?)
> > way to determine this, that would also be backwards compatible
> > to existing OS's that don't have pvclock+vsyscall supported?
> >
> >      
> It would probably be simplest and most portable for the app to just
> measure the performance of gettimeofday and see if it meets its needs.
>    
How can you reliably measure performance in a virtualized environment?

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