Re: kernel bootup slow issue on ovm3.1.1

[Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>]

At 13:36 +0800 on 29 Aug (1346247391), zhenzhong.duan wrote:
> 
> 
> ??? 2012-08-13 17:29, Jan Beulich ??????:
> >>>>On 13.08.12 at 09:58, "zhenzhong.duan"<zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com>  
> >>>>wrote:
> >>??? 2012-08-10 22:22, Jan Beulich ??????:
> >>>Going back to your original mail, I wonder however why this
> >>>gets done at all. You said it got there via
> >>>
> >>>mtrr_aps_init()
> >>>   \->   set_mtrr()
> >>>       \->   mtrr_work_handler()
> >>>
> >>>yet this isn't done unconditionally - see the comment before
> >>>checking mtrr_aps_delayed_init. Can you find out where the
> >>>obviously necessary call(s) to set_mtrr_aps_delayed_init()
> >>>come(s) from?
> >>At bootup stage, set_mtrr_aps_delayed_init is called by
> >>native_smp_prepare_cpus.
> >>mtrr_aps_delayed_init is always set to ture for intel processor in 
> >>upstream
> >>code.
> >Indeed, and that (in one form or another) has been done
> >virtually forever in Linux. I wonder why the problem wasn't
> >noticed (or looked into, if it was noticed) so far.
> >
> >As it's going to be rather difficult to convince the Linux folks
> >to change their code (plus this wouldn't help with existing
> >kernels anyway), we'll need to find a way to improve this in
> >the hypervisor.
> Hi Jan, Tim
> Is this issue improvable from xen side?

Probably; we're looking into the best way to address it. 

Tim.