From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Cc: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>,
KVM General <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, Zachary Amsden <zamsden@redhat.com>,
Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>,
ming.m.lin@intel.com, "Zhang,
Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
Fr??d??ric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: KVM PMU virtualization
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:42:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100226084241.GF15885@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100225173423.GB4246@8bytes.org>
* Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org> wrote:
> I personally don't like a self-defined event-set as the only solution
> because that would probably only work with linux and perf. [...]
The 'soft-PMU' i suggested is transparent on the guest side - if you want to
enable non-Linux and legacy-Linux.
It's basically a PMU interface provided to the guest by catching the right MSR
accesses, implemented via perf_event_create_kernel_counter()/etc. on the host
side.
Note that the 'soft PMU' still sucks from a design POV as there's no generic
hw interface to the PMU. So there would have to be a 'soft AMD' and a 'soft
Intel' PMU driver at minimum.
Far cleaner would be to expose it via hypercalls to guest OSs that are
interested in instrumentation. That way it could also transparently integrate
with tracing, probes, etc. It would also be wiser to first concentrate on
improving Linux<->Linux guest/host combos before gutting the design just to
fit Windows into the picture ...
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-26 8:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 99+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-25 15:04 KVM PMU virtualization Jes Sorensen
2010-02-25 15:44 ` Jan Kiszka
2010-02-25 16:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-26 2:52 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2010-02-26 8:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-26 11:03 ` Jes Sorensen
2010-02-25 17:34 ` Joerg Roedel
2010-02-26 2:55 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2010-02-26 8:51 ` Joerg Roedel
2010-02-26 9:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-26 10:42 ` Joerg Roedel
2010-02-26 10:56 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-03-02 7:09 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2010-03-02 9:36 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-03-03 3:32 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2010-03-03 9:27 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2010-03-03 10:13 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-03-04 0:52 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2010-03-03 10:15 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-03-04 1:00 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2010-03-10 9:29 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2010-03-02 9:57 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-02-26 8:42 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2010-02-26 9:46 ` Avi Kivity
2010-02-26 10:39 ` Joerg Roedel
2010-02-26 10:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-26 10:51 ` Avi Kivity
2010-02-26 11:06 ` Joerg Roedel
2010-02-26 11:18 ` Jes Sorensen
2010-02-26 11:24 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-26 11:25 ` Jes Sorensen
2010-02-26 11:20 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-26 10:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-26 11:16 ` Avi Kivity
2010-02-26 11:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-26 11:47 ` Avi Kivity
2010-02-26 11:23 ` Jes Sorensen
2010-02-26 11:42 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-26 11:51 ` Avi Kivity
2010-02-26 12:07 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-26 12:20 ` Avi Kivity
2010-02-26 12:38 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-26 13:04 ` Avi Kivity
2010-02-26 13:13 ` Jes Sorensen
2010-02-26 13:27 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-26 13:33 ` Avi Kivity
2010-02-26 14:07 ` Jes Sorensen
2010-02-26 14:11 ` Avi Kivity
2010-02-26 13:18 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-26 13:34 ` Jes Sorensen
2010-02-26 12:56 ` Jes Sorensen
2010-02-26 13:31 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-26 13:37 ` Jes Sorensen
2010-02-26 13:55 ` Avi Kivity
2010-02-26 14:27 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-02-26 14:54 ` Avi Kivity
2010-02-26 15:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-02-26 15:11 ` Avi Kivity
2010-02-26 15:18 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-02-26 15:55 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-02-26 16:06 ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-01 19:03 ` Zachary Amsden
2010-03-01 18:54 ` Zachary Amsden
2010-02-26 13:40 ` Avi Kivity
2010-02-26 14:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-26 14:22 ` Avi Kivity
2010-02-26 14:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-26 16:03 ` Avi Kivity
2010-02-26 16:07 ` Avi Kivity
2010-02-26 13:28 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-02-26 13:44 ` Avi Kivity
2010-02-26 13:51 ` Jes Sorensen
2010-02-26 14:42 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-03-08 18:14 ` Avi Kivity
2010-02-26 12:49 ` Jes Sorensen
2010-02-26 13:06 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-26 13:30 ` Avi Kivity
2010-02-26 13:32 ` Jes Sorensen
2010-02-26 13:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-26 13:53 ` Avi Kivity
2010-02-26 14:12 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-26 14:53 ` Avi Kivity
2010-02-26 15:14 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-02-28 16:34 ` Joerg Roedel
2010-02-28 16:31 ` Joerg Roedel
2010-02-28 16:11 ` Joerg Roedel
2010-03-01 8:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-03-01 8:58 ` Joerg Roedel
2010-03-01 9:04 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-03-01 8:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-03-01 11:11 ` Joerg Roedel
2010-03-01 17:17 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-03-01 18:36 ` Joerg Roedel
2010-03-08 10:15 ` Avi Kivity
2010-02-26 14:49 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-02-26 14:50 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-02-26 13:31 ` Jes Sorensen
2010-03-01 17:22 ` Zachary Amsden
2010-02-26 11:01 ` Jes Sorensen
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