Re: [RFC] Unify KVM kernel-space and user-space code into a singleproject

[Avi Kivity]

On 03/22/2010 10:35 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > And your point is that such vcpus should be excluded from profiling just
> > > because they fall outside the Qemu/libvirt umbrella?
> > >
> > > That is a ridiculous position.
> > >
> > >        
> > Non-guest vcpus will not be able to provide Linux-style symbols.
> >      
> And why do you say that it makes no sense to profile them?
>    

It makes sense to profile them, but you don't need to contact their 
userspace tool for that.

> Also, why do you define 'guest vcpus' to be 'Qemu started guest vcpus'? If
> some other KVM using project (which you encouraged just a few mails ago)
> starts a vcpu we still want to be able to profile them.
>
>    

Maybe it should provide a mechanism for libvirt to list it.

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