From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Venefax" Subject: RE: [Patch 2 of 2]: PV-domain SMP performance Linux-part Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 02:57:12 -0500 Message-ID: <05a001c977b0$0b1bf1e0$2153d5a0$@com> References: <4970344D.7030009@fujitsu-siemens.com> <059f01c977ad$5e40c380$1ac24a80$@com> <49703BDB.4090805@fujitsu-siemens.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <49703BDB.4090805@fujitsu-siemens.com> Content-language: en-us List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: 'Juergen Gross' Cc: 'George Dunlap' , xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, 'Keir Fraser' List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Just for my education and the rest of the list, what are you talking about? What is a PV domain compared to a Windows guest? I use the GPLPV drivers from James. -----Original Message----- From: Juergen Gross [mailto:juergen.gross@fujitsu-siemens.com] Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 2:49 AM To: Venefax Cc: 'Keir Fraser'; 'George Dunlap'; xen-devel@lists.xensource.com Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [Patch 2 of 2]: PV-domain SMP performance Linux-part 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 -- Juergen Gross Principal Developer IP SW OS6 Telephone: +49 (0) 89 636 47950 Fujitsu Siemens Computers e-mail: juergen.gross@fujitsu-siemens.com Otto-Hahn-Ring 6 Internet: www.fujitsu-siemens.com D-81739 Muenchen Company details: www.fujitsu-siemens.com/imprint.html