From: Juergen Gross <juergen.gross@fujitsu-siemens.com>
Subject: Re: [Patch 2 of 2]: PV-domain SMP performance Linux-part
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:48:43 +0100
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Cc: 'George Dunlap' <George.Dunlap@eu.citrix.com>, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, 'Keir Fraser' <keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com>

Venefax wrote:
> I can test it a real-world situation.
> I have SUSE 10-SP2 and have terrible performance issues with fully
> virtualized SMP machines. I had to start using Standard PC as HAL to avoid
> the penalty.
> Federico

Federico, thanks for your support. But my patches are for PV-domains (or at
least for domains with PV-drivers) only. I think you are using Windows as
guest, so you would have to build a XEN-aware HAL...

If you are testing with PV-domains, too, you are welcome, of course!


Juergen

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