On 02/26/2010 01:26 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
By far the biggest instrumentation issue is:
- availability
- usability
- flexibility
Exposing the raw hw is a step backwards in many regards.
In a way, virtualization as a whole is a step backwards. We take the nice
firesystem/timer/network/scheduler APIs, and expose them as raw hardware.
The pmu isn't any different.
Uhm, it's obviously very different. A fake NE2000 will work on both Intel and
AMD CPUs. Same for a fake PIT. PMU drivers are fundamentally per CPU vendor
though.
So there's no "generic hardware" to emulate.
That's true, and it reduces the usability of the feature (you have to
restrict your migration pools or not expose the pmu), but the general
points still stand.
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