Re: [benchmark] 1% performance overhead of paravirt_ops on nativekernels

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Jun 09 2009 - 21:26:53 EST



* Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Ingo Molnar writes:
>
> > I did this fork overhead measurement some time ago, using
> > perfcounters and 'perf':
>
> Could you post the program? I'd like to try it on some systems
> here.

I still have it, it was something really, really simple and silly:

int main(void)
{
int i;

for (i = 0; i < 8; i++)
if (!fork())
wait(0);
}

Ingo
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