[PATCH 0/3] powerpc: Instrument Hypervisor Calls

Anton Blanchard anton at samba.org
Sun Jul 16 01:30:54 EST 2006


 
> What happened to the question whether to use PURR values for also measuring
> cycles spent executing the hcall as opposed to cycles that passed before
> the hcall returns. Did that turn out not giving extra information after all
> or was there a different reason to drop that idea?

You have to be careful with PURR since it may be context switched
between partitions.

Anton



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