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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>, Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	"hpa@zytor.com" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	"jeremy@xensource.com" <jeremy@xensource.com>,
	"chrisw@sous-sol.org" <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
	"rusty@rustcorp.com.au" <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: lmbench lat_mmap slowdown with CONFIG_PARAVIRT
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:24:22 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <497EC4B6.3060805@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090127075912.GA6551@elte.hu>

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> This is a very serious paravirt_ops slowdown affecting the native kernel's 
> performance to the tune of 5-10% in certain workloads.
>
> It's been about 2 years ago that paravirt_ops went upstream, when you told 
> us that something like this would never happen, that paravirt_ops is 
> designed so flexibly that it will never hinder the native kernel - and if 
> it does it will be easy to fix it. Now is the time to fulfill that 
> promise.
>   

Yep, working on it.

    J

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-27  8:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-20 11:05 lmbench lat_mmap slowdown with CONFIG_PARAVIRT Nick Piggin
2009-01-20 11:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-20 12:34   ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-20 12:45     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-20 13:41       ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-20 14:03   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-20 14:14     ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-20 14:17       ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-20 14:41         ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-20 15:00           ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-20 15:13     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-20 19:37     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-20 20:45     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-01-20 20:56       ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-21  7:27         ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-21 22:23           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-01-22 22:28             ` Zachary Amsden
2009-01-22 22:44               ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-01-22 22:49                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-22 22:58                   ` Zachary Amsden
2009-01-22 23:52                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-23  0:08                       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-01-22 22:55                 ` Zachary Amsden
2009-01-23  0:14                   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-01-27  7:59                     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-27  8:24                       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2009-01-27 10:17                       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-01-20 19:05   ` Zachary Amsden
2009-01-20 19:31     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-22 22:26   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-01-22 23:04     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-22 23:30       ` Zachary Amsden

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