Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.3 development update

[Christoph Egger <chegger@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 02.04.13 19:06, Suravee Suthikulpanit wrote:
> On 4/2/2013 11:34 AM, Tim Deegan wrote:
> > At 16:42 +0100 on 02 Apr (1364920927), Jan Beulich wrote:
> > > > > > On 02.04.13 at 16:07, George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > > wrote:
> > > > * AMD NPT performance regression after c/s 24770:7f79475d3de7
> > > >    owner: ?
> > > >    Reference: http://marc.info/?l=xen-devel&m=135075376805215
> > > This is supposedly fixed with the RTC changes Tim committed the
> > > other day. Suravee, is that correct?
> > This is a separate problem.  IIRC the AMD XP perf issue is caused by the
> > emulation of LAPIC TPR accesses slowing down with Andres's p2m locking
> > patches.  XP doesn't have 'lazy IRQL' or support for CR8, so it takes a
> > _lot_ of vmexits for IRQL reads and writes.
> Is there any tools or good ways to count the number of VMexit in Xen?
xentrace -e 0x8f000 > xentrace.out
[Hit ^C to abort]
xentrace_format formats < xentrace.out > xentrace.dump

You need to manually install 'formats' from tools/xentrace/formats
to a proper place.

Christoph


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