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From: Andrew Theurer <habanero@us.ibm.com>
To: Xen development list <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Why is 'emulate' as good as writable PT's?
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 16:45:50 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4484A60E.6070008@us.ibm.com> (raw)

We have been doing some scalability work, and we noticed that forcing 
'emulate' in arch.x86/mm.c achieves the same performance on 1-way dom0.  
For example:

xen-unstable, changeset 10200, i386 with PAE, 1-way

benchmark       xen0   xen0+emulate
-------------   ----   ----
reaim_fserver   4421   4426
reaim_compute   2555   2531
SDET            4759   4810

The reaim benchmarks probably don't have much fork(), where I'd expect 
writable page tables to help, but SDET has a ton of fork+exec.

Could there be situations were we are inadvertently triggering a 
writable page table, where we should just be doing a update_va_mapping()?


-Andrew

             reply	other threads:[~2006-06-05 21:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-05 21:45 Andrew Theurer [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-06-05 22:17 Why is 'emulate' as good as writable PT's? Ian Pratt
2006-06-05 22:29 ` Andrew Theurer
2006-06-06 20:28 ` Andrew Theurer
2006-06-06 21:14   ` Keir Fraser
2006-06-06 22:02     ` Andrew Theurer
2006-06-08 16:05     ` Andrew Theurer
2006-06-12  9:15 Ian Pratt
2006-06-13 14:47 ` Andrew Theurer

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