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Re: [PATCH 1/2] accel/tcg/plugin: export host insn size
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Alex Bennée |
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Re: [PATCH 1/2] accel/tcg/plugin: export host insn size |
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Tue, 11 Apr 2023 08:27:14 +0100 |
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"Wu, Fei" <fei2.wu@intel.com> writes:
> On 4/10/2023 6:36 PM, Alex Bennée wrote:
>>
>> Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org> writes:
>>
>>> On 4/6/23 00:46, Alex Bennée wrote:
>>>> If your aim is to examine JIT efficiency what is wrong with the current
>>>> "info jit" that you can access via the HMP? Also I'm wondering if its
>>>> time to remove the #ifdefs from CONFIG_PROFILER because I doubt the
>>>> extra data it collects is that expensive.
>>>> Richard, what do you think?
>>>
>>> What is it that you want from CONFIG_PROFILER that you can't get from perf?
>>> I've been tempted to remove CONFIG_PROFILER entirely.
>>
>> I think perf is pretty good at getting the hot paths in the translator
>> and pretty much all of the timer related stuff in CONFIG_PROFILER could
>> be dropped. However some of the additional information about TCG ops
>> usage and distribution is useful. That said last time I had a tilt at
>> this on the back of a GSoC project:
>>
>> Subject: [PATCH v9 00/13] TCG code quality tracking and perf integration
>> Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2019 16:28:26 +0100
>> Message-Id: <20191007152839.30804-1-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
>>
>> The series ended up moving all the useful bits of CONFIG_PROFILER into
>> tb stats which was dynamically controlled on a per TB basis. Now that
>> the perf integration stuff was merged maybe there is a simpler series to
>> be picked out of the remains?
>>
>> Fei Wu,
>>
>> Have you looked at the above series? Is that gathering the sort of
>> things you need? Is this all in service of examining the translation
>> quality of hot code?
>>
> Yes, it does have what I want, I suppose this wiki is for the series:
> https://wiki.qemu.org/Features/TCGCodeQuality
Yes.
>
> btw, the archive seems broken and cannot show the whole series:
> https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg650258.html
I have a v10 branch here:
https://github.com/stsquad/qemu/tree/tcg/tbstats-and-perf-v10
I think the top two patches can be dropped on a re-base as the JIT/perf
integration is already merged. It might be a tricky re-base though.
Depends on how much churn there has been in the tree since.
>
> Thanks,
> Fei.
>
>>>
>>>
>>> r~
>>
>>
--
Alex Bennée
Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro
- [PATCH 0/2] accel/tcg/plugin: host insn size for plugin, Fei Wu, 2023/04/05
- [PATCH 1/2] accel/tcg/plugin: export host insn size, Fei Wu, 2023/04/05
- Re: [PATCH 1/2] accel/tcg/plugin: export host insn size, Alex Bennée, 2023/04/06
- Re: [PATCH 1/2] accel/tcg/plugin: export host insn size, Richard Henderson, 2023/04/07
- Re: [PATCH 1/2] accel/tcg/plugin: export host insn size, Alex Bennée, 2023/04/10
- Re: [PATCH 1/2] accel/tcg/plugin: export host insn size, Wu, Fei, 2023/04/10
- Re: [PATCH 1/2] accel/tcg/plugin: export host insn size,
Alex Bennée <=
- Re: [PATCH 1/2] accel/tcg/plugin: export host insn size, Wu, Fei, 2023/04/12
- Re: [PATCH 1/2] accel/tcg/plugin: export host insn size, Alex Bennée, 2023/04/12
- Re: [PATCH 1/2] accel/tcg/plugin: export host insn size, Wu, Fei, 2023/04/12
- Re: [PATCH 1/2] accel/tcg/plugin: export host insn size, Wu, Fei, 2023/04/17
- Re: [PATCH 1/2] accel/tcg/plugin: export host insn size, Alex Bennée, 2023/04/17
- Re: [PATCH 1/2] accel/tcg/plugin: export host insn size, Wu, Fei, 2023/04/17
- Re: [PATCH 1/2] accel/tcg/plugin: export host insn size, Wu, Fei, 2023/04/21
[PATCH 2/2] plugins/hotblocks: add host insn size, Fei Wu, 2023/04/05