Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 26 Mar 2010 22:03:10 -0400 | From | Naresh Rapolu <> | Subject | Hardware performance events are not counted by "perf" in a 2.6.31.12 KVM guest |
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Hello,
"perf" tool does not count hardware performance events ( cache misses etc) in a KVM guest ( Ubuntu 9.10 karmic, 2.6.31-14-generic kernel) on Xeon 5530 quad-core. The host is 2.6.28 kernel , Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, Hardy.
readfile.sh reads in a large file (1430 lines), which should cause cache-misses. root@multicore4-vm3:/usr/src/linux-2.6.31.12/tools/perf# ./perf stat -r 5 -- bash readfile.sh
Performance counter stats for 'bash readfile.sh' (5 runs):
11002.207467 task-clock-msecs # 1.042 CPUs ( +- 10.834% ) 3480 context-switches # 0.000 M/sec ( +- 19.017% ) 2238 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec ( +- 29.488% ) 482299 page-faults # 0.044 M/sec ( +- 0.141% ) 0 cycles # 0.000 M/sec ( +- nan% ) 0 instructions # nan IPC ( +- nan% ) 0 cache-references # 0.000 M/sec ( +- nan% ) 0 cache-misses # 0.000 M/sec ( +- nan% )
10.560510393 seconds time elapsed ( +- 11.401% )
Do I need to make some configuration changes to enable hardware events ? A similar question was posted recently here : http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/3/18/342 but no response ! Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, Naresh Rapolu.
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