On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 15:20 -0700, Cam Macdonell wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I get the following warning in the kernel messages:
> 
> kvm: emulating preempt notifiers; do not benchmark on this machine
> 
> Is this an accurate warning, should the machine not be used for 

It's accurate.

> benchmarking KVM? or does it mean don't benchmark other applications on 
> the host?
> 

It's when running kvm (it traps every process scheduling).
On newer hosts (2.6.23 >=) the preempt notifiers are integrated and
there is no need tapping the scheduler.

> Thanks,
> Cam
> 
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