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From: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] perf support for amd guest/host-only bits
Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 10:57:44 +0200
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On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 10:41:49PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> 'perf kvm' is the tool that is making Linux instrumentation friendlier to KVM 
> developers. Can you think of ways to utilize this new feature there?
> 
> For example a new 'perf kvm stat' feature could pass the exclusion bits to perf 
> stat automatically. 'perf kvm record' could record on the guest only by 
> default.

Yes, that would make sense. 'perf kvm' can default to guest-only
profiling. Hmm, but that would change existing behavior. It is probably
better to bind it to the --guest and --host parameters of perf-kvm.
Okay, this changes existing behavior too, so the default-thing seems the
better choice :)

	Joerg