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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>,
	Ricardo Martins <ricardo.martins.br@gmail.com>,
	"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: KVM Processor cache size
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2010 17:23:21 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C574559.40509@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C56CCFB.204@redhat.com>

On 08/02/2010 08:49 AM, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
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> On 08/02/2010 05:51 AM, Andre Przywara wrote:
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>> Do you have a use case for the cache size or is this just out of curiosity?
>>      
> glibc uses the cache size information returned by cpuid to perform
> optimizations.  For instance, copy operations which would pollute too
> much of the cache because they are large will use non-temporal
> instructions.  There are real performance benefits.

I imagine that there would be real performance problems from doing live 
migration with -cpu host too if we don't guarantee these values remain 
stable across migration...

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>    Even the synthetic
> CPU provided by qemu should have a more realistic value.
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-08-02 22:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-02 11:45 KVM Processor cache size Ricardo Martins
2010-08-02 12:51 ` Andre Przywara
2010-08-02 13:08   ` Avi Kivity
2010-08-02 22:22     ` Anthony Liguori
2010-08-02 22:35       ` Andre Przywara
2010-08-02 23:38         ` Anthony Liguori
2010-08-03  5:38           ` Avi Kivity
2010-08-03  5:33       ` Avi Kivity
2010-08-02 22:25     ` Anthony Liguori
2010-08-02 22:54       ` Andre Przywara
2010-08-02 23:40         ` Anthony Liguori
2010-08-03  5:41           ` Avi Kivity
2010-08-02 13:49   ` Ulrich Drepper
2010-08-02 18:38     ` Ricardo Martins
2010-08-02 22:24       ` Andre Przywara
2010-08-02 22:15     ` Andre Przywara
2010-08-02 22:23     ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2010-08-02 22:42       ` Andre Przywara
2010-08-02 23:36         ` Anthony Liguori
2010-08-03  6:25           ` Dor Laor

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