From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Cooper Subject: Re: HVM performance improvements Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2013 15:41:50 +0100 Message-ID: <52010B2E.2030909@citrix.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Keir Fraser Cc: George Dunlap , Xen-devel List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 06/08/13 15:36, Keir Fraser wrote: > On 06/08/2013 14:48, "Andrew Cooper" wrote: > >> This is re-post of my patchset to reduce the number of VMexits caused by >> RomBIOS. These patches have been included in several releases of XenSer= ver, >> and have had a substantial improvement to VM bootstorm scalability. >> >> Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper >> CC: Keir Fraser >> CC: Pasi K=E4rkk=E4inen >> CC: George Dunlap > Aren't we primarily using seabios now anyway? Anyhow these looked sane to > me. Upstream perhaps, but there will still be substantial use of qemu-traditional. XenServer for example will be maintaining both qemu's for the forseeable future, and I expect other larger distros will. (Also, these patches have been pending since early 4.2 without specific concerns against them, but I clearly didn't badger enough to get them committed) > > Acked-by: Keir Fraser > >