Is it possible for users to request vPMU/arch_perfmon feature on GCP instances for profiling purpose?
I asked the PCM community here (https://github.com/opcm/pcm/discussions/257) and they thought this might be the only solution to get PCM running on GCP. Anyone can help?
Accordingly to the GitHub discussion:
GCP needs to enable arch_perfmon/vPMU feature to allow collection of core perfmon counters. AWS did it for some virtualized instances and PCM works on those:
C5 (including c5n and c5dn): 9xlarge, 12xlarge, 18xlarge, 24xlarge M5 (including m5n, m5dn, m5zn): 12xlarge, 24xlarge R5 (including r5n, r5dn, r5b): 8xlarge, 12xlarge
To solve your issue, you should file a feature request at Google Public Issue Tracker under this component. Keep in mind that the feature request has to be analyzed and considered by the product team and there's no ETA for it to be delivered.