Some newbie questions

[David Smith]

On 08/17/2016 10:15 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:

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> My load indeed calls epoll_wait() at a high rate, with zero timeout. 
> But now it's completely dominated by tracing overhead.

I'm not sure how much it will help, but one easy fix would be to replace
all your '[pid(), tid()]' array indexing with just '[tid()]' array indexing.

Try changing that and see if the tracing overhead goes down a bit.

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