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From: "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
To: qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Cc: "Peter Maydell" <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
	"Cleber Rosa" <cleber@redhat.com>, "Oleg Vasilev" <me@svin.in>,
	"Richard Henderson" <richard.henderson@linaro.org>,
	"Emilio Cota" <cota@braap.org>,
	"Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <f4bug@amsat.org>,
	qemu-arm <qemu-arm@nongnu.org>,
	"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	"Idan Horowitz" <idan.horowitz@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Analysis of slow distro boots in check-avocado (BootLinuxAarch64.test_virt_tcg*)
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2022 16:17:23 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878ru2nacq.fsf@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874k4xbqvp.fsf@linaro.org>


Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> TL;DR:
>
>   - pc-bios/edk2-aarch64-code.fd should be rebuilt without debug

Laszlo,

Would it be possible to do a less debug enabled version of EDK2 on the
next update to pc-bios/edk2-*?

>
> So my working theory is:
>
>   - booting with EFI leaves a number stale code pages
>   - as the kernel boots it clears these pages triggering lots of
>     slow-path writes
>   - result very slow boot
>
> I think the only real solution is to improve our TB invalidation code
> but perhaps another approach would be to detect a high TB invalidation
> churn and just tb_flush the whole thing and start again?
>
> Any thoughts or ideas?


-- 
Alex Bennée


  reply	other threads:[~2022-02-22 16:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-02-17 11:19 Analysis of slow distro boots in check-avocado (BootLinuxAarch64.test_virt_tcg*) Alex Bennée
2022-02-22 16:17 ` Alex Bennée [this message]
2022-02-22 16:38   ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2022-02-22 17:33     ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2022-02-22 17:37       ` Peter Maydell
2022-02-22 18:05         ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2022-02-23  8:48           ` Gerd Hoffmann
     [not found]             ` <87zgmhlwjw.fsf@linaro.org>
2022-02-23 10:58               ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2022-02-23  9:19       ` Peter Maydell
2022-02-23 10:53         ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2022-02-23 11:11           ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2022-02-23 11:50           ` Gerd Hoffmann
2022-02-24  9:10             ` Igor Mammedov
2022-02-24 11:39               ` Laszlo Ersek
2022-03-08 12:42               ` Gerd Hoffmann
2022-02-23 11:07       ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2022-02-23 13:34         ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2022-02-23 13:43           ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2022-02-23 14:00             ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2022-02-23 16:37           ` Laszlo Ersek
2022-02-23 19:28             ` Peter Maydell

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