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Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 14:29:45 +0200
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From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around QEMU to
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To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>, "kvm@vger.kernel.org list" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, qemu-devel Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>, Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Am=E9rico_Wang?= <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>

Hi Avi,

On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> wrote:
>> tools/power was merged in just 2 versions ago, do you think that
>> merging that was a mistake?
>
> Things like tools/power may make sense, most of the code is tied to the
> kernel interfaces. =A0tools/kvm is 20k lines and is likely to be 40k+
> lines or more before it is generally usable. =A0The proportion of the cod=
e
> that talks to the kernel is quite small.

So what do you think about perf then? The amount of code that talks to
the kernel is much smaller than that of the KVM tool.

                        Pekka