* Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 03/17/2010 10:16 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > >* Avi Kivity<avi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> Monitoring guests from the host is useful for kvm developers, but less so > >> for users. > > > > Guest space profiling is easy, and 'perf kvm' is not about that. (plain > > 'perf' will work if a proper paravirt channel is opened to the host) > > > > I think you might have misunderstood the purpose and role of the 'perf > > kvm' patch here? 'perf kvm' is aimed at KVM developers: it is them who > > improve KVM code, not guest kernel users. > > Of course I understood it. My point was that 'perf kvm' serves a tiny > minority of users. [...] I hope you wont be disappointed to learn that 100% of Linux, all 13+ million lines of it, was and is being developed by a tiny, tiny, tiny minority of users ;-) > [...] That doesn't mean it isn't useful, just that it doesn't satisfy all > needs by itself. Of course - and it doesnt bring world peace either. One step at a time. Thanks, Ingo -- 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
