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Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 1/5] ara virt interface of perf to support kvm guest
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On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 13:06 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:

> You have a set of MSRs for real hardware (actually several sets) 
> discoverable by cpuid bits.  You have another set of MSRs, using other 
> indexes, discoverable by more CPUID bits.
> 
> The new MSR indexes will always #GP on real hardware, but will be 
> trapped and serviced by kvm.  In effect kvm will pretend to have a 
> hardware-like PMU but done according to its own specifications.

So what's the point? I thought the whole MSR interface thing was purely
to let other-o$ play with the PMU, but if you move it around like that
and make it KVM specific, nobody will find it...
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