From: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@redhat.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>,
KVM General <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>,
ming.m.lin@intel.com, "Zhang,
Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>,
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: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:03:49 -1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B8C0F95.1090400@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1267199748.22519.725.camel@laptop>
On 02/26/2010 05:55 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 17:11 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
>
>> On 02/26/2010 05:08 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>>
>>>> That's 7 more than what we support now, and 7 more than what we can
>>>> guarantee without it.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Again, what windows software uses only those 7? Does it pay to only have
>>> access to those 7 or does it limit the usability to exactly the same
>>> subset a paravirt interface would?
>>>
>>>
>> Good question. Would be interesting to try out VTune with the non-arch
>> pmu masked out.
>>
> Also, the ANY bit is part of the intel arch pmu, but you still have to
> mask it out.
>
> BTW, just wondering, why would a developer be running VTune in a guest
> anyway? I'd think that a developer that windows oriented would simply
> run windows on his desktop and VTune there.
>
What if you want to run on 10 different variations of Windows 32 / 64 /
server / desktop configurations. Do you maintain 10 installed pieces of
hardware?
A virtual machine is a better solution. And you might want to
performance tune all 10 of those configurations as well. Be nice if it
were possible.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-01 19:04 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 [this message]
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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