On 05/25/10 05:05, Chen Cao wrote: > perfmon2 API provides access to the hardware performance counters of > modern processors. > > Dependency, > To compile the source code of the test, the following packages should > be installed, > glibc-static-2.11.1-6.x86_64 > glibc-headers-2.11.1-6.x86_64 > glibc-common-2.11.1-6.x86_64 > glibc-devel-2.11.1-6.x86_64 > glibc-2.11.1-6.x86_64 > > Note, > 1. libpfm uses the Performance Monitor Unit (PMU) on the processors, > but this unit is not provided by kvm currently, i.e. the test should > fail in kvm guests. > 2. According to the README file of perfmon-tests-0.3, 2.6.24 or higer > Linux kernel (with perfmon v2.8 or higher) is needed to run the tests. I thought perfmon2 was deprecated in favor of perf_event.c ? The only reference left for perfmon2 in the kernel is in the ia64 tree, and KVM/ia64 seems to be pretty dead these days. Cheers, Jes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html