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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 0/3] kvm tool: Serial emulation overhaul
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 20:21:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EE6463A.2010007@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111212110236.755eda81@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk>

On 12/12/2011 01:02 PM, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > You can emulate a chip with a 64byte or so FIFO. You can do I/O cycle
> > > prediction in the kernel part and you can use the empty bit as a clue
> > > (which is what most serial<->ethernet widgetry does).
> > 
> > The performance problems here aren't the same performance problems you
> > have on real hardware. The problem here is that it costs 40k cycles for
> > the guest to access the emulated chip.
>
> How much of that 40K cycles is bouncing back and forth into emulation
> layers and how much of it is the kernel trap ?
>  

30K of those cycles are only in Sasha's mind, the real figure is 10K
(and likely lower with newer hardware).

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-12 18:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-10 13:27 [patch 0/3] kvm tool: Serial emulation overhaul Thomas Gleixner
2011-12-10 13:27 ` [patch 1/3] kvm tool: serial: Cleanup coding style Thomas Gleixner
2011-12-10 13:27 ` [patch 3/3] kvm tool: serial: Fix interrupt handling Thomas Gleixner
2011-12-10 13:27 ` [patch 2/3] kvm tool: serial: Simplify switch cases Thomas Gleixner
2011-12-10 15:17 ` [patch 0/3] kvm tool: Serial emulation overhaul Pekka Enberg
2011-12-10 20:51   ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-12-11  8:15     ` Pekka Enberg
2011-12-11 10:30       ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-11 10:46         ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-11 14:04         ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-12-11 15:53           ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-12  5:30             ` Sasha Levin
2011-12-12 11:12               ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-12 11:20                 ` Alan Cox
2011-12-12 17:20                   ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-12 18:16                   ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-12 18:16                   ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-12 21:36                     ` Alan Cox
2011-12-13 10:32                       ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-12 11:23                 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-12-12 17:40                 ` Sasha Levin
2011-12-12 17:45                   ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-12  9:42             ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-12-12 11:19             ` Pekka Enberg
2011-12-12 17:20               ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-12 18:40                 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-12-12 19:14                   ` Pekka Enberg
2011-12-12 19:21                   ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-13  0:59                     ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-12-13  7:03                       ` Pekka Enberg
2011-12-13 11:05                         ` Alan Cox
2011-12-13 10:58                       ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-13 13:52                         ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-12-13 14:23                           ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-13 14:30                             ` Sasha Levin
2011-12-13 14:51                             ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-12-13 14:58                               ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-12 21:03                   ` James Courtier-Dutton
2011-12-12 18:19               ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-12 18:31                 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-12-13 10:33                   ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-12 10:27           ` Alan Cox
2011-12-12 10:59             ` Sasha Levin
2011-12-12 11:02               ` Alan Cox
2011-12-12 18:21                 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2011-12-12 17:21               ` Ingo Molnar

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