Re: Poor HVM performance with 8 vcpus

[Juergen Gross <juergen.gross@ts.fujitsu.com>]

Gianluca Guida wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Juergen Gross
> <juergen.gross@ts.fujitsu.com> wrote:
>> Gianluca,
>>
>> as the performance of BS2000 seems to be hit by OOS optimization, I'm
>> thinking of making a patch to disable this feature by a domain parameter.
>>
>> Is there a way to do this without having to change all places where the
>> #if statements are placed?
>> I think there should be some central routines where adding an "if" could
>> be enough (setting oos_active to 0 seems not to be enough, I fear).
> 
> It should be. oos_active set to zero (if you prevent the shadow code
> to set it to 1 when we enable paging) will prevent any page to go OOS.
> This is exactly what Tim's suggestion was.
> 
> Have you tried it?

Not yet. I wanted to be sure, as I suspected some inconsistencies could be
hiding without showing up at once.


Juergen

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