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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: "Lluís Vilanova" <vilanova@ac.upc.edu>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: "Eduardo Habkost" <ehabkost@redhat.com>,
	"Peter Crosthwaite" <crosthwaite.peter@gmail.com>,
	"Stefan Hajnoczi" <stefanha@gmail.com>,
	"Riku Voipio" <riku.voipio@iki.fi>,
	"Markus Armbruster" <armbru@redhat.com>,
	"Luiz Capitulino" <lcapitulino@redhat.com>,
	"Blue Swirl" <blauwirbel@gmail.com>,
	"Stefan Hajnoczi" <stefanha@redhat.com>,
	"Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>,
	"Richard Henderson" <rth@twiddle.net>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 8/9] trace: [tcg] Add per-vCPU tracing states for events with the 'vcpu' property
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 11:50:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <569CC38F.60302@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <145287591675.11400.12508957244344480632.stgit@localhost>



On 15/01/2016 17:38, Lluís Vilanova wrote:
> Each event with the 'vcpu' property gets a per-vCPU dynamic tracing state.
> 
> The set of enabled events with the 'vcpu' and 'tcg' properties is used
> to select a per-vCPU physical TB cache.  The number of events with both
> properties is used to select the number of physical TB caches, and a
> bitmap of the identifiers of such enabled events is used to select a
> physical TB cache.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lluís Vilanova <vilanova@ac.upc.edu>

I may be wrong, but this patch and patches 3+5 seem overengineered.  Why
can't you just flush the TB cache entirely whenever the set of trace
events changes, independent of whether they use the vcpu attribute?
That's a very rare event.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-18 10:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-15 16:37 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 0/9] trace: Per-vCPU tracing states Lluís Vilanova
2016-01-15 16:37 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 1/9] trace: Add support for vCPU pointers in trace events Lluís Vilanova
2016-01-15 16:38 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 2/9] trace: Add 'vcpu' event property Lluís Vilanova
2016-01-15 16:38 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 3/9] trace: [tcg] Identify events with the 'vcpu' property Lluís Vilanova
2016-01-15 16:38 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 4/9] exec: [tcg] Refactor flush of per-CPU virtual TB cache Lluís Vilanova
2016-01-15 16:38 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 5/9] exec: [tcg] Use multiple physical TB caches Lluís Vilanova
2016-01-15 16:38 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 6/9] exec: [tcg] Track which vCPU is performing translation and execution Lluís Vilanova
2016-01-15 16:38 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 7/9] disas: Remove unused macro '_' Lluís Vilanova
2016-01-15 16:38 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 8/9] trace: [tcg] Add per-vCPU tracing states for events with the 'vcpu' property Lluís Vilanova
2016-01-18 10:50   ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2016-01-18 11:55     ` Lluís Vilanova
2016-01-19 22:06   ` Eric Blake
2016-01-15 16:38 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 9/9] trace: [tcg] Generate TCG code to trace guest events on a per-vCPU basis Lluís Vilanova

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