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* perf kvm: Events analysis toolXiao Guangrong2012-09-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add 'perf kvm stat' support to analyze kvm vmexit/mmio/ioport smartly Usage: - kvm stat run a command and gather performance counter statistics, it is the alias of perf stat - trace kvm events: perf kvm stat record, or, if other tracepoints are interesting as well, we can append the events like this: perf kvm stat record -e timer:* -a If many guests are running, we can track the specified guest by using -p or --pid, -a is used to track events generated by all guests. - show the result: perf kvm stat report The output example is following: 13005 13059 total 2 guests are running on the host Then, track the guest whose pid is 13059: ^C[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.253 MB perf.data.guest (~11065 samples) ] See the vmexit events: Analyze events for all VCPUs: VM-EXIT Samples Samples% Time% Avg time APIC_ACCESS 460 70.55% 0.01% 22.44us ( +- 1.75% ) HLT 93 14.26% 99.98% 832077.26us ( +- 10.42% ) EXTERNAL_INTERRUPT 64 9.82% 0.00% 35.35us ( +- 14.21% ) PENDING_INTERRUPT 24 3.68% 0.00% 9.29us ( +- 31.39% ) CR_ACCESS 7 1.07% 0.00% 8.12us ( +- 5.76% ) IO_INSTRUCTION 3 0.46% 0.00% 18.00us ( +- 11.79% ) EXCEPTION_NMI 1 0.15% 0.00% 5.83us ( +- -nan% ) Total Samples:652, Total events handled time:77396109.80us. See the mmio events: Analyze events for all VCPUs: MMIO Access Samples Samples% Time% Avg time 0xfee00380:W 387 84.31% 79.28% 8.29us ( +- 3.32% ) 0xfee00300:W 24 5.23% 9.96% 16.79us ( +- 1.97% ) 0xfee00300:R 24 5.23% 7.83% 13.20us ( +- 3.00% ) 0xfee00310:W 24 5.23% 2.93% 4.94us ( +- 3.84% ) Total Samples:459, Total events handled time:4044.59us. See the ioport event: Analyze events for all VCPUs: IO Port Access Samples Samples% Time% Avg time 0xc050:POUT 3 100.00% 100.00% 13.75us ( +- 10.83% ) Total Samples:3, Total events handled time:41.26us. And, --vcpu is used to track the specified vcpu and --key is used to sort the result: Analyze events for VCPU 0: VM-EXIT Samples Samples% Time% Avg time HLT 27 13.85% 99.97% 405790.24us ( +- 12.70% ) EXTERNAL_INTERRUPT 13 6.67% 0.00% 27.94us ( +- 22.26% ) APIC_ACCESS 146 74.87% 0.03% 21.69us ( +- 2.91% ) IO_INSTRUCTION 2 1.03% 0.00% 17.77us ( +- 20.56% ) CR_ACCESS 2 1.03% 0.00% 8.55us ( +- 6.47% ) PENDING_INTERRUPT 5 2.56% 0.00% 6.27us ( +- 3.94% ) Total Samples:195, Total events handled time:10959950.90us. Signed-off-by: Dong Hao <haodong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Runzhen Wang <runzhen@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [ Dong Hao <haodong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Runzhen Wang <runzhen@linux.vnet.ibm.com>: - rebase it on current acme's tree - fix the compiling-error on i386 ] Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org Cc: Runzhen Wang <runzhen@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347870675-31495-4-git-send-email-haodong@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
* perf kvm: Document missing optionsShawn Bohrer2010-12-01
| | | | | | | | | Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1291168642-11402-6-git-send-email-shawn.bohrer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Shawn Bohrer <shawn.bohrer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
* perf: Some perf-kvm documentation editsWilliam Cohen2010-04-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | asciidoc does not allow the "===" to be longer than the line above it. Also fix a couple types and formatting errors. Signed-off-by: William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> LKML-Reference: <4BD204C5.9000504@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
* perf: 'perf kvm' tool for monitoring guest performance from hostZhang, Yanmin2010-04-19
Here is the patch of userspace perf tool. Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>