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From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com>
To: John Weekes <lists.xen@nuclearfallout.net>
Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: Performance difference between Xen versions
Date: Tue, 03 May 2011 08:23:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DBFC977020000780003F537@vpn.id2.novell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DBF13BB.3000309@nuclearfallout.net>

>>> On 02.05.11 at 22:27, John Weekes <lists.xen@nuclearfallout.net> wrote:
> On 5/2/2011 12:23 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> Correct. I generally found the default threshold of the ondemand
>> governor nor very suitable for optimal performance of short lived
>> jobs, and boot all of my systems with "cpufreq=xen:ondemand,threshold=20".
> 
> Just sending you a quick note here to let you know that "threshold=20" 
> apparently isn't a valid option in 4.1. "up_threshold=20" is what's 
> needed there, instead. It looks like this was changed in 2009: 
> http://xenbits.xensource.com/hg/staging/xen-4.1-testing.hg/rev/ce391986ce35 
> 
> The threshold can also be changed with "xenpm set-up-threshold" at runtime.

Indeed, thanks for pointing that out. I must not have updated my
boot loader settings in that respect for a very long time... And
Xen should probably warn about unrecognized options (preparing
a patch as I write this).

Jan

      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-05-03  7:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-29 12:32 Performance difference between Xen versions Juergen Gross
2011-04-29 13:28 ` Keir Fraser
2011-04-29 13:35   ` Juergen Gross
2011-04-29 14:58     ` Keir Fraser
2011-04-29 16:10 ` Jan Beulich
2011-05-02  5:31   ` Juergen Gross
2011-05-02  6:41     ` Keir Fraser
2011-05-02  7:23       ` Jan Beulich
2011-05-02  8:00         ` Juergen Gross
2011-05-02  8:15           ` Jan Beulich
2011-05-02  8:23             ` Juergen Gross
2011-05-02  8:49               ` Keir Fraser
2011-05-03  3:06                 ` Tian, Kevin
2011-05-06 13:49                   ` Juergen Gross
2011-05-06 14:27                     ` Jan Beulich
2011-05-11  6:08                     ` Tian, Kevin
2011-05-11  6:23                       ` Juergen Gross
2011-05-02 17:52         ` John Weekes
2011-05-02 18:12           ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-05-02 18:43             ` John Weekes
2011-05-02 19:16               ` John Weekes
2011-05-02 19:36                 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-05-02 19:54                   ` John Weekes
2011-05-03  2:16                   ` Tian, Kevin
2011-05-03  3:04                 ` Tian, Kevin
2011-05-03  3:39                   ` John Weekes
2011-05-03  7:23                     ` Tian, Kevin
     [not found]         ` <4DBF13BB.3000309@nuclearfallout.net>
2011-05-03  7:23           ` Jan Beulich [this message]

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