From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Anyone seeing huge slowdown launching qemu with Linux 2.6.35? Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2010 19:33:20 +0300 Message-ID: <4C599650.70400@redhat.com> References: <4C586CF9.7030206@redhat.com> <4C588804.5060803@redhat.com> <4C590046.2020705@redhat.com> <4C591D48.9080301@redhat.com> <4C592218.3000901@redhat.com> <4C596549.1070109@codemonkey.ws> <20100804130709.GL10499@redhat.com> <4C5967D8.7080707@codemonkey.ws> <20100804133401.GP10499@redhat.com> <4C5970AC.6060105@codemonkey.ws> <20100804140011.GR10499@redhat.com> <4C5977B7.9020008@redhat.com> <4C597B90.30602@codemonkey.ws> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Paolo Bonzini , Gleb Natapov , Gerd Hoffmann , "Richard W.M. Jones" , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Anthony Liguori Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:35114 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751077Ab0HDQd1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Aug 2010 12:33:27 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4C597B90.30602@codemonkey.ws> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 08/04/2010 05:39 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: > > We could make kernel an awful lot smarter but unless we've got someone > just itching to write 16-bit option rom code, I think our best bet is > to try to leverage a standard bootloader and expose a disk containing > the kernel/initrd. > A problem with that is that the booted kernel would see that disk and try to do something with it. -- I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this signature is too narrow to contain.