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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0 of 5] Add credit2 scheduler (EXPERIMENTAL)

Hello Dulloor,

Thank you so much for sharing this patch !! Jeremy and I feel that "perf" support is needed in Xen for thorough (per-process, per-vpcu) profiling, not just statistical profiling by Oprofile. Now that I have this latest Xenoprof patch, I will try to stick to its design and see how "perf" linux subsystem can use xenoprof hypercall interfaces.

Will keep updating you on this regularly.

Thanks,
Naresh Rapolu,
PhD student, Computer Science,
Purdue University.

Dulloor wrote:
Naresh,

If you are interested only in profiling, you could use xenoprof too.
I had ported xenoprof to pvops (attaching a patch that applies cleanly
to linux pvops). I have used this with passive profiling and for
profiling xen/dom0. This patch also includes an obvious fix (over
oprofile branch in Jeremy's repo) for active profiling, although I
didn't get a chance to test.

Please let know if you try this and if you face any issues.

thanks
dulloor

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Naresh Rapolu <nrapolu@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello George,

I am trying to get linux "perf" tool work with Xen(Virtualize PMU to measure
hardware events from inside guests).
I have the following options :

 1. allowing the guest kernel to see the PMU hardware features via
    cpuid, and then doing whatever is necessary to make them work as
    expected (by instruction emulation, etc), or
 2. keeping them hidden, but adding a new Xen interface and the
    appropriate Linux-side code to detect that interface and use it


Does Xenalyze have any code relevant to this ? Can you think of any
directions in this regard ?

Thanks,
Naresh Rapolu.


George Dunlap wrote:
I have not measured cache / TLB misses with this workload yet.  In the
past I've instrumented the scheduler trace records in Xen to include
performance counters such as instructions executed and cache / tlb misses,
and then used xenalyze (http://xenbits.xensource.com/ext/xenalyze.hg) to
analyze them.  But the functionality for both capture and analysis was never
standardized or added to mainline.

I'd be happy to help point you in the right direction if you're interested
in investing in that approach. :-)

-George

Naresh Rapolu wrote:
Hello George,

How did you measure  Cache/ TLB misses etc while using/profiling this new
scheduler ?  Any tool that you`ve used which works with Xen ?

Thanks,
Naresh Rapolu.
PhD Student, Computer Science,
Purdue University.

George Dunlap wrote:

This patch series introduces the credit2 scheduler.  The first two
patches
introduce changes necessary to allow the credit2 shared runqueue
functionality
to work properly; the last two implement the functionality itself.

The scheduler is still in the experimental phase.  There's lots of
opportunity to contribute with independent lines of development; email
George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> or check out the wiki page
http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Credit2_Scheduler_Development for
ideas
and status updates.

19 files changed, 1453 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
tools/libxc/Makefile                      |    1
tools/libxc/xc_csched2.c                  |   50 +
tools/libxc/xenctrl.h                     |    8
tools/python/xen/lowlevel/xc/xc.c         |   58 +
tools/python/xen/xend/XendAPI.py          |    3
tools/python/xen/xend/XendDomain.py       |   54 +
tools/python/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py   |    4
tools/python/xen/xend/XendNode.py         |    4
tools/python/xen/xend/XendVMMetrics.py    |    1
tools/python/xen/xend/server/SrvDomain.py |   14 tools/python/xen/xm/main.py
              |   82 ++
xen/arch/ia64/vmx/vmmu.c                  |    6 xen/common/Makefile
                  |    1 xen/common/sched_credit.c                 |    8
xen/common/sched_credit2.c                | 1125
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
xen/common/schedule.c                     |   22
xen/include/public/domctl.h               |    4 xen/include/public/trace.h
               |    1 xen/include/xen/sched-if.h                |   28
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