From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] kvm-70 release Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 07:15:06 -0700 Message-ID: <4859186A.606@qumranet.com> References: <48572C32.50009@qumranet.com> <4857A917.4040406@lfarkas.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Farkas Levente Return-path: Received: from il.qumranet.com ([212.179.150.194]:38727 "EHLO il.qumranet.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753098AbYFROPJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:15:09 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4857A917.4040406@lfarkas.org> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Farkas Levente wrote: > Avi Kivity wrote: >> This release was cooking for far too long, and as a result there are >> plenty of changes. Windows XP SMP performance is much improved for >> AMD hosts or Intel hosts without FlexPriority (performance with >> FlexPriority should already be very good). There are many smp and >> timekeeping fixes included. mmio coalescing and async virtio-block >> should improve mmio performance. SLES 10 is supported as host. > > on our centos-5 host we run our guests (as you suggested) with > clocksource=acpi_pm does it still required with this release? > I'd stick with acpi_pm, especially on AMD (which is what you're running on IIRC). -- I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this signature is too narrow to contain.