From: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
To: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Cc: 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>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
ming.m.lin@intel.com, "Zhang,
Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: KVM PMU virtualization
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:01:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B87AA26.7050908@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100225173423.GB4246@8bytes.org>
On 02/25/10 18:34, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> The biggest problem I see here is teaching the guest about the available
> events. The available event sets are dependent on the processor family
> (at least on AMD).
> A simple approach would be shadowing the perf msrs which is a simple
> thing to do. More problematic is the reinjection of performance
> interrupts and performance nmis.
IMHO the only real solution here is to map it to the host CPU, and
require -cpu host for PMU support. There is no point in trying to
emulate PMU features which we don't have in the hardware. Ie. you cannot
count cache misses if the hardware doesn't support it.
Cheers,
Jes
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-26 11:05 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
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 [this message]
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