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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


  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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