From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@novell.com>
To: "Jeremy Fitzhardinge" <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
"Chris Lalancette" <clalance@redhat.com>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH]: Fix Xen domU boot with batched mprotect
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:28:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48F70941.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48F61919.2050005@goop.org>
>>> Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> 15.10.08 18:23 >>>
>> But
>> performance-wise, CONFIG_HIGHPTE sucks under Xen anyway, so you'd
>> better not turn this on in the first place. We may want/need to provide
>> a means to disable this at run time so the same kernel when run natively
>> could still make use of it, but without impacting performance under Xen.
>>
>
>That's a secondary issue. What's the source of the performance hit?
>Just all the extra kmap_atomic operations?
Yes, afaict.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-16 7:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-15 11:03 [PATCH]: Fix Xen domU boot with batched mprotect Chris Lalancette
2008-10-15 15:24 ` [Xen-devel] " Jan Beulich
2008-10-15 16:23 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-10-16 7:28 ` Jan Beulich [this message]
2008-10-16 9:58 ` Jan Beulich
2008-10-16 16:10 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-10-17 7:12 ` Jan Beulich
2008-10-17 15:19 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-10-17 15:30 ` Jan Beulich
2008-10-17 15:36 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
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