From: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>,
Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/5] KVM in-guest performance monitoring
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 16:29:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110512142940.GJ8707@8bytes.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DCBE2C9.20709@redhat.com>
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 04:38:17PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 05/12/2011 04:06 PM, Joerg Roedel wrote:
>> AMD processors don't implement that cpuid leaf.
>
> Right. But if an AMD processor were to implement that leaf, it would be
> in a compatible manner, yes?
No official statement, but I guess this is the case. I have to check
back, though.
> A paravirt PMU also has to be implemented on top of perf_events.
> Otherwise we can't share this resource. So the only question is what
> the interface looks like. The arch pmu is non-optimized, but well
> specified and somewhat supported in guests. A paravirt pmu is not so
> well specified at this point but can be faster (less exits).
I agree that getting the interface right is certainly the most difficult
and important task here.
Joerg
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-12 14:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-11 15:55 [PATCH v1 0/5] KVM in-guest performance monitoring Avi Kivity
2011-05-11 15:55 ` [PATCH v1 1/5] perf: add context parameter to perf_event overflow handler Avi Kivity
2011-06-03 14:41 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-06-05 8:07 ` Avi Kivity
2011-05-11 15:55 ` [PATCH v1 2/5] x86, perf: add constraints for architectural PMU v1 Avi Kivity
2011-05-11 15:55 ` [PATCH v1 3/5] perf: export perf_event_refresh() to modules Avi Kivity
2011-05-11 15:55 ` [PATCH v1 4/5] KVM: Expose kvm_lapic_local_deliver() Avi Kivity
2011-05-11 15:55 ` [PATCH v1 5/5] KVM: Expose a version 1 architectural PMU to guests Avi Kivity
2011-05-17 19:41 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-18 9:03 ` Avi Kivity
2011-05-18 11:07 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-18 11:29 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-18 11:57 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-18 11:32 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-18 11:37 ` Avi Kivity
2011-05-18 12:35 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-18 12:49 ` Avi Kivity
2011-06-03 14:41 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-06-05 8:12 ` Avi Kivity
2011-06-03 14:41 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-06-05 8:12 ` Avi Kivity
2011-05-12 9:33 ` [PATCH v1 0/5] KVM in-guest performance monitoring Joerg Roedel
2011-05-12 9:47 ` Jan Kiszka
2011-05-12 9:53 ` Avi Kivity
2011-05-12 13:11 ` Joerg Roedel
2011-05-12 13:23 ` Jan Kiszka
2011-05-12 13:43 ` Joerg Roedel
2011-05-12 13:31 ` Avi Kivity
2011-05-12 14:24 ` Joerg Roedel
2011-05-12 14:37 ` Avi Kivity
2011-05-12 14:45 ` Avi Kivity
2011-05-13 12:34 ` Joerg Roedel
2011-05-12 9:51 ` Avi Kivity
2011-05-12 13:06 ` Joerg Roedel
2011-05-12 13:38 ` Avi Kivity
2011-05-12 14:29 ` Joerg Roedel [this message]
2011-05-17 9:52 ` Avi Kivity
2011-06-01 9:45 ` Avi Kivity
2011-06-01 10:26 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-06-01 11:26 ` Avi Kivity
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