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To: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] Unify KVM kernel-space and user-space code into a single project
From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
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Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 06:09:45 +0100
In-Reply-To: <20100323182153.GA14800@8bytes.org> (Joerg Roedel's message of "Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:21:53 +0100")
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Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org> writes:
>
> Sidenote: I really think we should come to a conclusion about the
>           concept. KVM integration into perf is very useful feature to
> 	  analyze virtualization workloads.

Agreed. I especially would like to see instruction/branch tracing
working this way.  This would a lot of the benefits of a simulator on
a real CPU.

-Andi

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