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From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 0/3] separate thread for IO handling V3
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:46:50 +0300
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Avi Kivity wrote:
>
> There's still something wrong.  When I start Windows with these 
> patches applied, Windows startup consumes ~50 sec of cpu time, 
> compared to ~12 sec without.  Pinning qemu into cpu 0 seems to fix this.
>
> I'll investigate some more.
>

Changing GUI_REFRESH_INTERVAL to 1000 (from 30) reduces cpu usage back 
to normal.  So I'm guessing there's some bad interaction between the 
iothread getting the dirty log and vcpu 0.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


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