Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC] Performance monitoring units and KVM

2008-02-19 Thread Avi Kivity
Markus Armbruster wrote: Balaji Rao [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all! Earlier it was suggested that we go ahead with emulating Perf Mon Events in exposing it to the guest. The serious limitation in this approach is that we end up exposing only a small number of events to the guest,

Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC] Performance monitoring units and KVM

2008-02-18 Thread Markus Armbruster
Balaji Rao [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all! Earlier it was suggested that we go ahead with emulating Perf Mon Events in exposing it to the guest. The serious limitation in this approach is that we end up exposing only a small number of events to the guest, even though the host hardware

[kvm-devel] [RFC] Performance monitoring units and KVM

2008-02-16 Thread Balaji Rao
Hi all! Earlier it was suggested that we go ahead with emulating Perf Mon Events in exposing it to the guest. The serious limitation in this approach is that we end up exposing only a small number of events to the guest, even though the host hardware is capable of much more. The only benefit

Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC] Performance monitoring units and KVM

2008-02-16 Thread Anthony Liguori
Balaji Rao wrote: Hi all! Earlier it was suggested that we go ahead with emulating Perf Mon Events in exposing it to the guest. The serious limitation in this approach is that we end up exposing only a small number of events to the guest, even though the host hardware is capable of much

Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC] Performance monitoring units and KVM

2008-02-16 Thread Balaji Rao
On Sunday 17 February 2008 03:34:43 am Anthony Liguori wrote: Balaji Rao wrote: Hi all! Earlier it was suggested that we go ahead with emulating Perf Mon Events in exposing it to the guest. The serious limitation in this approach is that we end up exposing only a small number of events