Re: [PATCH] Enhance perf to collect KVM guest os statistics fromhost side

[Avi Kivity]

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.  That doesn't mean it isn't useful, just that it 
doesn't satisfy all needs by itself.

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