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Re: [Qemu-devel] How to measure guest memory access (qemu_ld/qemu_st) ti
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Laurent Desnogues |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] How to measure guest memory access (qemu_ld/qemu_st) time? |
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Wed, 13 Jun 2012 12:43:28 +0200 |
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 5:14 AM, 陳韋任 (Wei-Ren Chen)
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I suspect that guest memory access (qemu_ld/qemu_st) account for the major of
> time spent in system mode. I would like to know precisely how much (if
> possible).
> We use tools like perf [1] before, but since the logic of guest memory access
> aslo
> embedded in the host binary not only helper functions, the result cannot be
> relied. The current idea is adding helper functions before/after guest memory
> access logic. Take ARM guest on x86_64 host for example, should I add the
> helper
> functions before/after tcg_gen_qemu_{ld,st} in target-arm/translate.c or
> tcg_out_qemu_{ld,st} in tcg/i386/tcg-target.c? Or there is a better way to
> know
> how much time QEMU spend on handling guest memory access?
I'm afraid there's no easy way to measure that: any change you make
to generated code will completely change the timing given that the ld/st
fast path is only a few instructions long.
Another approach might be to run the program in user mode and then
in system mode (provided the guest OS is very light).
As a side note, it might be interesting to gather statistics about the hit
rate of the QEMU TLB. Another thing to consider is speeding up the
fast path; see YeongKyoon Lee RFC patch:
http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg91294.html
Laurent
- [Qemu-devel] How to measure guest memory access (qemu_ld/qemu_st) time?, Wei-Ren Chen, 2012/06/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] How to measure guest memory access (qemu_ld/qemu_st) time?,
Laurent Desnogues <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] How to measure guest memory access (qemu_ld/qemu_st) time?, Wei-Ren Chen, 2012/06/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] How to measure guest memory access (qemu_ld/qemu_st) time?, Blue Swirl, 2012/06/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] How to measure guest memory access (qemu_ld/qemu_st) time?, Lluís Vilanova, 2012/06/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] How to measure guest memory access (qemu_ld/qemu_st) time?, Wei-Ren Chen, 2012/06/19
- Re: [Qemu-devel] How to measure guest memory access (qemu_ld/qemu_st) time?, Michael.Kang, 2012/06/19
- Re: [Qemu-devel] How to measure guest memory access (qemu_ld/qemu_st) time?, Michael.Kang, 2012/06/19