Re: Performance overhead of paravirt_ops on native identified

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu May 14 2009 - 10:10:25 EST


Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> This sounds remarkably like what the dynamic function call tracer does.
>

I'm sure this has been invented before... probably more than once. Far
too many things we invent don't get generalized.

-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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