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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen: core dom0 support
Date: Sun, 08 Mar 2009 14:56:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49B43F1D.2000400@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090308110150.GA19151@elte.hu>

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> Associativity effects do depend on the kernel image layout and 
> on the precise allocations of kernel data structure allocations 
> we do during bootup - and they dont really change after that.
> 

By the way, there is a really easy way (if a bit time consuming) to get
the actual variability here -- you have to reboot between runs, even for
the same kernel.  It makes the data collection take a long time, but at
least it can be scripted.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.


  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-08 22:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-28  1:59 [PATCH] xen: core dom0 support Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-28  1:59 ` [PATCH] xen dom0: Make hvc_xen console work for dom0 Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-28  1:59 ` [PATCH] xen dom0: Initialize xenbus " Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-28  1:59 ` [PATCH] xen dom0: Set up basic IO permissions " Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-28  1:59 ` [PATCH] xen-dom0: only selectively disable cpu features Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-28  1:59 ` [PATCH] xen dom0: Add support for the platform_ops hypercall Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-28  1:59 ` [PATCH] xen mtrr: Add mtrr_ops support for Xen mtrr Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-28  1:59 ` [PATCH] xen: disable PAT Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-28  1:59 ` [PATCH] xen/dom0: use _PAGE_IOMAP in ioremap to do machine mappings Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-28  1:59 ` [PATCH] paravirt/xen: add pvop for page_is_ram Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-10  1:07   ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-10 21:19     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-10 22:21       ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-10 22:44         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-28  1:59 ` [PATCH] xen/dom0: Use host E820 map Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-28  1:59 ` [PATCH] xen: implement XENMEM_machphys_mapping Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-28  1:59 ` [PATCH] xen: clear reserved bits in l3 entries given in the initial pagetables Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-28  1:59 ` [PATCH] xen/dom0: add XEN_DOM0 config option Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-28  1:59 ` [PATCH] xen: allow enable use of VGA console on dom0 Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-28  1:59 ` [PATCH] xen mtrr: Use specific cpu_has_foo macros instead of generic cpu_has() Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-28  1:59 ` [PATCH] xen mtrr: Kill some unneccessary includes Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-28  1:59 ` [PATCH] xen mtrr: Use generic_validate_add_page() Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-28  1:59 ` [PATCH] xen mtrr: Implement xen_get_free_region() Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-28  1:59 ` [PATCH] xen mtrr: Add xen_{get,set}_mtrr() implementations Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-28  5:28 ` [PATCH] xen: core dom0 support Andrew Morton
2009-02-28  6:52   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-28  7:20     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-28  8:05       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-28  8:36         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-28  9:57           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-02  9:26       ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-03-02 12:04         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-02 12:26           ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-02-28 12:09     ` Nick Piggin
2009-02-28 18:11       ` [Xen-devel] " Jody Belka
2009-02-28 18:15         ` Andi Kleen
2009-03-01 23:38           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-02  0:14             ` Andi Kleen
2009-03-01 23:27       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-02  6:37         ` Nick Piggin
2009-03-02  8:05           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-02  8:19             ` Nick Piggin
2009-03-02  9:05               ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-04 17:34             ` Anthony Liguori
2009-03-04 17:38               ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-05 10:59               ` [Xen-devel] " George Dunlap
2009-03-05 14:37                 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-03-04 17:31           ` Anthony Liguori
2009-03-04 19:03         ` Anthony Liguori
2009-03-04 19:16           ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-04 19:33             ` Anthony Liguori
2009-02-28 16:14     ` Andi Kleen
2009-03-01 23:34       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-01 23:52         ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-02  0:08           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-02  0:14             ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-02  0:42               ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-02  0:46                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-02  0:10         ` Andi Kleen
2009-02-28  8:42   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-28  9:46     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-02 12:08       ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-07  9:06         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-08 11:01           ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-08 21:56             ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2009-03-08 22:06               ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-08 22:08                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-08 22:12                   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-09 18:06                     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-10 12:44                       ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-10 12:49                       ` Nick Piggin
2009-03-05 13:52   ` Morten P.D. Stevens
2009-03-08 14:25     ` Manfred Knick
2009-03-09 19:51       ` Morten P.D. Stevens
2009-03-09 20:00       ` Morten P.D. Stevens
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-03-11 19:58 devzero
2009-03-14  1:08 ` Morten P.D. Stevens

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