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From: Avi Kivity <avi@scylladb.com>
To: David Smith <dsmith@redhat.com>, "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark Wielaard <mjw@redhat.com>, systemtap@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Some newbie questions
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 18:22:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <16163b32-fb65-0eba-3722-b702237657cf@scylladb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ee0ef821-19cb-b3d6-1982-90eb563c9249@redhat.com>

On 08/17/2016 09:06 PM, David Smith wrote:
> On 08/17/2016 10:15 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
>
> ... stuff deleted ...
>
>> My load indeed calls epoll_wait() at a high rate, with zero timeout.
>> But now it's completely dominated by tracing overhead.
> I'm not sure how much it will help, but one easy fix would be to replace
> all your '[pid(), tid()]' array indexing with just '[tid()]' array indexing.
>
> Try changing that and see if the tracing overhead goes down a bit.
>

Yeah, I forgot to do that.


But it's really unlikely to help, all the overhead is coming from 
syscall tracing, which I didn't ask for.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-17 18:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-07  8:08 Avi Kivity
2016-08-07  9:16 ` Avi Kivity
2016-08-08 14:58 ` David Smith
2016-08-09  6:51   ` Avi Kivity
2016-08-09 13:54     ` Mark Wielaard
2016-08-09 14:11       ` Avi Kivity
2016-08-10 15:33         ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2016-08-10 15:39           ` Avi Kivity
2016-08-10 15:40           ` Avi Kivity
2016-08-10 16:47             ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2016-08-11  7:51               ` Avi Kivity
2016-08-11  8:13                 ` Avi Kivity
2016-08-11 16:18                   ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2016-08-17 15:15                     ` Avi Kivity
2016-08-17 18:06                       ` David Smith
2016-08-17 18:22                         ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2016-08-17 18:10                       ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2016-08-17 18:30                         ` Avi Kivity
2016-08-17 18:35                           ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2016-08-17 18:42                             ` Avi Kivity
2016-08-25 16:21                             ` Avi Kivity
2016-08-25 17:37                               ` David Smith
2016-08-26 18:39                                 ` Avi Kivity
2016-08-26 20:08                                   ` David Smith
2016-08-26 21:21                                     ` Josh Stone
2016-08-28 13:30                                     ` Avi Kivity
2016-08-28 13:35                                       ` Avi Kivity
2016-08-28 13:45                                         ` Avi Kivity
2016-08-29 18:26                                       ` David Smith
2016-08-31 16:44                                         ` Avi Kivity
2016-08-09 15:17     ` David Smith
2016-08-09 15:28       ` Avi Kivity

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