Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH, RFC] trace: implement guest tracepoint passthrough

2011-09-03 Thread Dhaval Giani
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 1:53 AM, Blue Swirl wrote: > On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Dhaval Giani wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Blue Swirl wrote: >>> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 8:38 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: >>>> On 08/26/2011 10:06 PM, Blue Swirl wrote:

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH, RFC] trace: implement guest tracepoint passthrough

2011-08-31 Thread Dhaval Giani
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 6:38 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: >> On 08/31/2011 12:08 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: >>> >>> > >>> >  At least on x86, fw_cfg is pretty slow, involving multiple exits. >>> >  IMO, for kvm, even one exit per tracepoint is t

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH, RFC] trace: implement guest tracepoint passthrough

2011-08-31 Thread Dhaval Giani
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Blue Swirl wrote: > On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 8:38 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: >> On 08/26/2011 10:06 PM, Blue Swirl wrote: >>> >>> Let guests inject tracepoint data via fw_cfg device. >>> >>> >> >> At least on x86, fw_cfg is pretty slow, involving multiple exits.  IMO,