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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: "Peter Maydell" <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
	"Emilio G. Cota" <cota@braap.org>,
	"Pranith Kumar" <bobby.prani@gmail.com>,
	"Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>,
	qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	"Richard Henderson" <rth@twiddle.net>,
	"Alessandro Di Federico" <ale+qemu@clearmind.me>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] GSoC 2017 Proposal: TCG performance enhancements
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2017 15:35:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <000023f1-57a6-b211-d9d1-87b8f39326d5@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA8RBMtfS+5GP=cGeAdV+zgGRg5OPEAu_PY+_hEPcWaJqw@mail.gmail.com>



On 07/06/2017 14:07, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> My understanding was that adding a public instrumentation interface would add
>> too much code maintenance overhead for a feature that is not in QEMU's core
>> target.
> Well, it depends what you define as our core target :-)
> I think we get quite a lot of users that want some useful ability
> to see what their guest code is doing, and these days (when
> dev board hardware is often very cheap and easily available)

and virtualization is too...

> I think that's a lot of the value that emulation can bring to
> the table. Obviously we would want to try to do it in a way
> that is low-runtime-overhead and is easy to get right for
> people adding/maintaining cpu target frontend code...

Indeed.  I even sometimes use TCG -d in_asm,exec,int for KVM unit tests,
because it's easier to debug them that way :) so introspection ability
is welcome.

Related to this is also Alessandro's work to librarify TCG (he has a
TCG->LLVM backend for example).

  reply	other threads:[~2017-06-07 13:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-25 16:52 [Qemu-devel] GSoC 2017 Proposal: TCG performance enhancements Pranith Kumar
2017-03-27 10:57 ` Richard Henderson
2017-03-27 13:22   ` Alex Bennée
2017-03-28  3:03   ` Pranith Kumar
2017-03-28  3:09     ` Pranith Kumar
2017-03-28 10:03       ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2017-06-02 23:39   ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] tcg: allocate TB structs before the corresponding translated code Emilio G. Cota
2017-06-04 17:47     ` Richard Henderson
2017-03-27 11:32 ` [Qemu-devel] GSoC 2017 Proposal: TCG performance enhancements Paolo Bonzini
2017-03-28  3:07   ` Pranith Kumar
2017-03-27 15:54 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2017-03-27 17:13   ` Pranith Kumar
2017-06-06 17:13 ` Emilio G. Cota
2017-06-07 10:15   ` Alex Bennée
2017-06-07 11:12   ` Lluís Vilanova
2017-06-07 12:07     ` Peter Maydell
2017-06-07 13:35       ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2017-06-07 15:52         ` Lluís Vilanova
2017-06-07 16:09           ` Alex Bennée
2017-06-07 17:07           ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-06-07 15:45       ` Lluís Vilanova
2017-06-07 16:17         ` Peter Maydell
2017-06-07 22:49         ` Emilio G. Cota

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