Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Memory access profiler(IBS) driven NUMA balancing

From: Dave Hansen
Date: Thu Feb 09 2023 - 10:02:03 EST


On 2/8/23 22:04, Bharata B Rao wrote:
>> First, IIRC, Intel PEBS at the time only gave guest virtual addresses in
>> the PEBS records. They had to be translated back to host addresses to
>> be usable. That was extra expensive.
> Just to be clear, I am using IBS in host only and it can give both virtual
> and physical address.

Could you talk a little bit about how IBS might get used for NUMA
balancing guest memory?