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From: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: system call time increase when turning on CONFIG_PARAVIRT
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 12:11:14 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1172866274.4898.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)


With CONFIG_PARAVIRT turned on, I've found that time invoking
system_call jumped up quite a lot.  Using TCP streaming test as a
workload and running on 32-bit 2.6.20 kernel, system_call goes up from
0.00025% all the way to 1.6% in the oprofile data.  There is a drop of
about 4% in overall throughput for this particular workload. 

With lmbench's null system call test, the call time goes up from 0.10
usec to 0.225 usec.

I'm testing on dual socket Intel core 2 processor running at 2.67 GHz
with 4 GB RAM.

Tim 

             reply	other threads:[~2007-03-02 21:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-02 20:11 Tim Chen [this message]
2007-03-02 21:54 ` system call time increase when turning on CONFIG_PARAVIRT Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-02 21:54   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-02 23:11   ` Tim Chen
2007-03-03  0:16     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-03  0:16       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-03  7:00       ` Zachary Amsden
2007-03-08  0:02       ` Tim Chen
2007-03-08  0:02         ` Tim Chen
2007-03-08  0:55         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-08  0:55           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge

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