Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/6] virtio-trace: Support virtio-trace

2012-08-20 Thread Amit Shah
On (Tue) 21 Aug 2012 [11:47:16], Rusty Russell wrote: > On Thu, 9 Aug 2012 15:46:20 +0530, Amit Shah wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On (Tue) 24 Jul 2012 [11:36:57], Yoshihiro YUNOMAE wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > The following patch set provides a low-overhead system for collecting > > > kernel > >

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/6] virtio-trace: Support virtio-trace

2012-08-20 Thread Rusty Russell
On Thu, 9 Aug 2012 15:46:20 +0530, Amit Shah wrote: > Hi, > > On (Tue) 24 Jul 2012 [11:36:57], Yoshihiro YUNOMAE wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > The following patch set provides a low-overhead system for collecting kernel > > tracing data of guests by a host in a virtualization environment. > > So I

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/6] virtio-trace: Support virtio-trace

2012-08-09 Thread Amit Shah
Hi, On (Tue) 24 Jul 2012 [11:36:57], Yoshihiro YUNOMAE wrote: > Hi All, > > The following patch set provides a low-overhead system for collecting kernel > tracing data of guests by a host in a virtualization environment. So I just have one minor comment, please post a non-RFC version of the patc

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/6] virtio-trace: Support virtio-trace

2012-07-30 Thread Yoshihiro YUNOMAE
Hi Amit, Sorry for the late reply. (2012/07/27 18:43), Amit Shah wrote: On (Fri) 27 Jul 2012 [17:55:11], Yoshihiro YUNOMAE wrote: Hi Amit, Thank you for commenting on our work. (2012/07/26 20:35), Amit Shah wrote: On (Tue) 24 Jul 2012 [11:36:57], Yoshihiro YUNOMAE wrote: [...] ***Jus

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/6] virtio-trace: Support virtio-trace

2012-07-27 Thread Blue Swirl
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Masami Hiramatsu wrote: > (2012/07/25 5:26), Blue Swirl wrote:> >>> The following patch set provides a low-overhead system for collecting kernel >>> tracing data of guests by a host in a virtualization environment. >>> >>> A guest OS generally shares some devices w

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/6] virtio-trace: Support virtio-trace

2012-07-27 Thread Amit Shah
On (Fri) 27 Jul 2012 [17:55:11], Yoshihiro YUNOMAE wrote: > Hi Amit, > > Thank you for commenting on our work. > > (2012/07/26 20:35), Amit Shah wrote: > >On (Tue) 24 Jul 2012 [11:36:57], Yoshihiro YUNOMAE wrote: > > [...] > > >> > >>Therefore, we propose a new system "virtio-trace", which uses

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/6] virtio-trace: Support virtio-trace

2012-07-27 Thread Yoshihiro YUNOMAE
Hi Amit, Thank you for commenting on our work. (2012/07/26 20:35), Amit Shah wrote: On (Tue) 24 Jul 2012 [11:36:57], Yoshihiro YUNOMAE wrote: [...] Therefore, we propose a new system "virtio-trace", which uses enhanced virtio-serial and existing ring-buffer of ftrace, for collecting guest

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/6] virtio-trace: Support virtio-trace

2012-07-26 Thread Amit Shah
On (Tue) 24 Jul 2012 [11:36:57], Yoshihiro YUNOMAE wrote: > Hi All, > > The following patch set provides a low-overhead system for collecting kernel > tracing data of guests by a host in a virtualization environment. > > A guest OS generally shares some devices with other guests or a host, so > r

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/6] virtio-trace: Support virtio-trace

2012-07-26 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Yoshihiro YUNOMAE wrote: > Hi Stefan, > > > (2012/07/24 22:41), Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Yoshihiro YUNOMAE >> wrote: > > Are you using text formatted ftrace? >>> >>> No, currently using raw format, but we'd like to re

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/6] virtio-trace: Support virtio-trace

2012-07-25 Thread Yoshihiro YUNOMAE
Hi Stefan, (2012/07/24 22:41), Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Yoshihiro YUNOMAE wrote: Are you using text formatted ftrace? No, currently using raw format, but we'd like to reformat it in text. Capturing the info necessary to translate numbers into symbols is one o

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/6] virtio-trace: Support virtio-trace

2012-07-25 Thread Masami Hiramatsu
(2012/07/25 5:26), Blue Swirl wrote:> >> The following patch set provides a low-overhead system for collecting kernel >> tracing data of guests by a host in a virtualization environment. >> >> A guest OS generally shares some devices with other guests or a host, so >> reasons of any problems occurr

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/6] virtio-trace: Support virtio-trace

2012-07-24 Thread Blue Swirl
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 2:36 AM, Yoshihiro YUNOMAE wrote: > Hi All, > > The following patch set provides a low-overhead system for collecting kernel > tracing data of guests by a host in a virtualization environment. > > A guest OS generally shares some devices with other guests or a host, so > re

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/6] virtio-trace: Support virtio-trace

2012-07-24 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Masami Hiramatsu wrote: > (2012/07/24 19:02), Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 3:36 AM, Yoshihiro YUNOMAE >> wrote: >>> The performance of each method is compared as follows: >>> [1] Native >>> - only recording trace data to ring-buffer on

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/6] virtio-trace: Support virtio-trace

2012-07-24 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Yoshihiro YUNOMAE wrote: >>> Are you using text formatted ftrace? > No, currently using raw format, but we'd like to reformat it in text. Capturing the info necessary to translate numbers into symbols is one of the problems of host<->guest tracing so I'm curious

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/6] virtio-trace: Support virtio-trace

2012-07-24 Thread Yoshihiro YUNOMAE
Hi Stefan, Thank you for commenting on our patch set. (2012/07/24 20:03), Masami Hiramatsu wrote: (2012/07/24 19:02), Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 3:36 AM, Yoshihiro YUNOMAE wrote: The performance of each method is compared as follows: [1] Native - only recording tr

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/6] virtio-trace: Support virtio-trace

2012-07-24 Thread Masami Hiramatsu
(2012/07/24 19:02), Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 3:36 AM, Yoshihiro YUNOMAE > wrote: >> The performance of each method is compared as follows: >> [1] Native >> - only recording trace data to ring-buffer on a guest >> [2] Virtio-trace >> - running a trace agent on a

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/6] virtio-trace: Support virtio-trace

2012-07-24 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 3:36 AM, Yoshihiro YUNOMAE wrote: > The performance of each method is compared as follows: > [1] Native > - only recording trace data to ring-buffer on a guest > [2] Virtio-trace > - running a trace agent on a guest > - a reader on a host opens FIFO using c

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/6] virtio-trace: Support virtio-trace

2012-07-23 Thread Masami Hiramatsu
(2012/07/24 11:36), Yoshihiro YUNOMAE wrote: > Therefore, we propose a new system "virtio-trace", which uses enhanced > virtio-serial and existing ring-buffer of ftrace, for collecting guest kernel > tracing data. In this system, there are 5 main components: > (1) Ring-buffer of ftrace in a guest

[Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/6] virtio-trace: Support virtio-trace

2012-07-23 Thread Yoshihiro YUNOMAE
Hi All, The following patch set provides a low-overhead system for collecting kernel tracing data of guests by a host in a virtualization environment. A guest OS generally shares some devices with other guests or a host, so reasons of any problems occurring in a guest may be from other guests or