From: Richard Davies <richard@arachsys.com>
To: Robert Vineyard <vineyard@tuffmail.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: Windows slow boot: contractor wanted
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2012 15:44:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120818144402.GA4254@alpha.arachsys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <502E40D0.8030802@tuffmail.com>
Hi Robert,
Robert Vineyard wrote:
> Not sure if you've tried this, but I noticed massive performance
> gains (easily booting 2-3 times as fast) by converting from RAW disk
> images to direct-mapped raw partitions and making sure that IOMMU
> support was enabled in the BIOS and in the kernel at boot time.
Thanks for the suggestions, but unfortunately do we have IOMMU support
enabled, and in production (rather than this test case), we run from LVM
LVs, which are effectively direct raw partitions and still have this slow
boot problem.
Thanks anyway,
Richard.
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From: Richard Davies <richard@arachsys.com>
To: Robert Vineyard <vineyard@tuffmail.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows slow boot: contractor wanted
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2012 15:44:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120818144402.GA4254@alpha.arachsys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <502E40D0.8030802@tuffmail.com>
Hi Robert,
Robert Vineyard wrote:
> Not sure if you've tried this, but I noticed massive performance
> gains (easily booting 2-3 times as fast) by converting from RAW disk
> images to direct-mapped raw partitions and making sure that IOMMU
> support was enabled in the BIOS and in the kernel at boot time.
Thanks for the suggestions, but unfortunately do we have IOMMU support
enabled, and in production (rather than this test case), we run from LVM
LVs, which are effectively direct raw partitions and still have this slow
boot problem.
Thanks anyway,
Richard.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-18 14:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 101+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-16 10:47 Windows slow boot: contractor wanted Richard Davies
2012-08-16 10:47 ` [Qemu-devel] " Richard Davies
2012-08-16 11:39 ` Avi Kivity
2012-08-16 11:39 ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2012-08-17 12:36 ` Richard Davies
2012-08-17 12:36 ` [Qemu-devel] " Richard Davies
2012-08-17 13:02 ` Robert Vineyard
2012-08-17 13:02 ` [Qemu-devel] " Robert Vineyard
2012-08-18 14:44 ` Richard Davies [this message]
2012-08-18 14:44 ` Richard Davies
2012-08-19 5:02 ` Brian Jackson
2012-08-19 5:02 ` [Qemu-devel] " Brian Jackson
2012-08-20 8:16 ` Richard Davies
2012-08-20 8:16 ` [Qemu-devel] " Richard Davies
2012-08-19 8:40 ` Avi Kivity
2012-08-19 8:40 ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2012-08-19 8:51 ` Richard Davies
2012-08-19 8:51 ` [Qemu-devel] " Richard Davies
2012-08-19 14:04 ` Avi Kivity
2012-08-19 14:04 ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2012-08-20 13:56 ` Richard Davies
2012-08-20 13:56 ` [Qemu-devel] " Richard Davies
2012-08-21 9:00 ` Avi Kivity
2012-08-21 9:00 ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2012-08-21 15:21 ` Richard Davies
2012-08-21 15:21 ` [Qemu-devel] " Richard Davies
2012-08-21 15:39 ` Troy Benjegerdes
2012-08-21 15:39 ` Troy Benjegerdes
2012-08-22 9:08 ` Avi Kivity
2012-08-22 9:08 ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2012-08-22 12:40 ` Richard Davies
2012-08-22 12:40 ` [Qemu-devel] " Richard Davies
2012-08-22 12:44 ` Avi Kivity
2012-08-22 12:44 ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2012-08-22 14:41 ` Richard Davies
2012-08-22 14:41 ` [Qemu-devel] " Richard Davies
2012-08-22 14:53 ` Avi Kivity
2012-08-22 14:53 ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2012-08-22 15:26 ` Richard Davies
2012-08-22 15:26 ` [Qemu-devel] " Richard Davies
2012-08-22 17:22 ` Troy Benjegerdes
2012-08-22 17:22 ` Troy Benjegerdes
2012-08-25 17:51 ` Richard Davies
2012-08-25 17:51 ` Richard Davies
2012-08-22 15:21 ` Rik van Riel
2012-08-22 15:21 ` [Qemu-devel] " Rik van Riel
2012-08-22 15:34 ` Richard Davies
2012-08-22 15:34 ` [Qemu-devel] " Richard Davies
2012-08-25 17:45 ` Richard Davies
2012-08-25 17:45 ` [Qemu-devel] " Richard Davies
2012-08-25 18:11 ` Rik van Riel
2012-08-25 18:11 ` [Qemu-devel] " Rik van Riel
2012-08-26 10:58 ` Richard Davies
2012-08-26 10:58 ` [Qemu-devel] " Richard Davies
2012-09-06 9:20 ` Richard Davies
2012-09-06 9:20 ` [Qemu-devel] " Richard Davies
2012-09-12 10:56 ` Windows VM slow boot Richard Davies
2012-09-12 10:56 ` [Qemu-devel] " Richard Davies
2012-09-12 10:56 ` Richard Davies
2012-09-12 12:25 ` Mel Gorman
2012-09-12 12:25 ` [Qemu-devel] " Mel Gorman
2012-09-12 12:25 ` Mel Gorman
2012-09-12 16:46 ` Richard Davies
2012-09-12 16:46 ` [Qemu-devel] " Richard Davies
2012-09-12 16:46 ` Richard Davies
2012-09-13 9:50 ` Mel Gorman
2012-09-13 9:50 ` [Qemu-devel] " Mel Gorman
2012-09-13 9:50 ` Mel Gorman
2012-09-13 19:47 ` [PATCH 1/2] Revert "mm: have order > 0 compaction start near a pageblock with free pages" Rik van Riel
2012-09-13 19:47 ` [Qemu-devel] " Rik van Riel
2012-09-13 19:47 ` Rik van Riel
2012-09-13 19:48 ` [PATCH 2/2] make the compaction "skip ahead" logic robust Rik van Riel
2012-09-13 19:48 ` [Qemu-devel] " Rik van Riel
2012-09-13 19:48 ` Rik van Riel
2012-09-13 19:54 ` [PATCH -v2 " Rik van Riel
2012-09-13 19:54 ` [Qemu-devel] " Rik van Riel
2012-09-13 19:54 ` Rik van Riel
2012-09-15 15:55 ` Richard Davies
2012-09-15 15:55 ` [Qemu-devel] " Richard Davies
2012-09-15 15:55 ` Richard Davies
2012-09-16 19:12 ` Richard Davies
2012-09-16 19:12 ` [Qemu-devel] " Richard Davies
2012-09-17 12:26 ` Mel Gorman
2012-09-17 12:26 ` [Qemu-devel] " Mel Gorman
2012-09-18 8:14 ` Richard Davies
2012-09-18 8:14 ` [Qemu-devel] " Richard Davies
2012-09-18 11:21 ` Mel Gorman
2012-09-18 11:21 ` [Qemu-devel] " Mel Gorman
2012-09-18 11:21 ` Mel Gorman
2012-09-18 17:58 ` Richard Davies
2012-09-18 17:58 ` [Qemu-devel] " Richard Davies
2012-09-17 13:50 ` Rik van Riel
2012-09-17 13:50 ` [Qemu-devel] " Rik van Riel
2012-09-17 14:07 ` Mel Gorman
2012-09-17 14:07 ` [Qemu-devel] " Mel Gorman
2012-09-17 14:07 ` Mel Gorman
2012-08-16 14:10 ` Windows slow boot: contractor wanted Benoît Canet
2012-08-16 14:10 ` [Qemu-devel] " Benoît Canet
2012-08-16 15:53 ` Troy Benjegerdes
2012-09-18 15:12 ` Windows slow boot Michael Tokarev
2012-09-18 15:12 ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael Tokarev
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