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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: IO_MEM_NB_ENTRIES limit
Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 19:45:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200805111945.10204.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48273023.2010808@bellard.org>

On Sunday 11 May 2008, Fabrice Bellard wrote:
> andrzej zaborowski wrote:
> > [...]
> > Here are some benchmark results:
>
> Benchmarks measuring the boot time mainly measure the dynamic
> translation time, so they are not much meaningful. It would be better to
> launch say nbench or a compilation with gcc.

Once you hit userspace (particularly things like udev) you do a lot of TLB 
thrashing, which can show interesting things about the TLB invalidation/slow 
path performance.

I agree things like nbench tend to be a good test of the TLB fast path.

Paul

      reply	other threads:[~2008-05-11 18:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-15 11:35 [Qemu-devel] IO_MEM_NB_ENTRIES limit andrzej zaborowski
2008-05-11 15:20 ` [Qemu-devel] " andrzej zaborowski
2008-05-11 15:25   ` Fabrice Bellard
2008-05-11 15:59   ` Fabrice Bellard
2008-05-11 17:18     ` andrzej zaborowski
2008-05-11 17:39       ` Fabrice Bellard
2008-05-11 17:42       ` Fabrice Bellard
2008-05-11 18:45         ` Paul Brook [this message]

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