On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 17:11 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > On 02/26/2010 05:08 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > >> That's 7 more than what we support now, and 7 more than what we can > >> guarantee without it. > >> > > Again, what windows software uses only those 7? Does it pay to only have > > access to those 7 or does it limit the usability to exactly the same > > subset a paravirt interface would? > > > > Good question. Would be interesting to try out VTune with the non-arch > pmu masked out. >From what I understood VTune uses PEBS+LBR, although I suppose they have simple PMU modes too, never actually seen the software. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html