From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, x86@kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
Feng Jin <joe.jin@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Parallelize mtrr init between cpus
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2012 20:53:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5021E2A2.8080606@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5021CA31.7000405@oracle.com>
On 08/07/2012 07:08 PM, zhenzhong.duan wrote:
>
>
> 2012-08-08 00:32, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> On 08/07/2012 12:29 AM, zhenzhong.duan wrote:
>>> Current code serialize mtrr init with set_atomicity_lock.
>>> Mtrr init is quite slow when we bootup on a hvm with large mem, vcpus
>>> and pci passthroughed devices(eg. 24 vcpus + 90G mem).
>>> It took about ~30 mins to bootup, after patch, it took ~2 min.
>> When you're saying "HVM" do you mean "Xen HVM"? How does it behave on
>> native hardware?
>>
>> -hpa
> Yes, I mean Xen HVM. Bootup at same speed as before on baremetal.
Then I would like to know why Xen HVM takes so infernally long. It
isn't a good idea to make gratuitous changes in the main kernel to work
around defects in Xen.
-hpa
--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-08 3:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-07 7:29 zhenzhong.duan
2012-08-07 9:01 ` zhenzhong.duan
2012-08-07 16:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-08-08 2:08 ` zhenzhong.duan
2012-08-08 3:53 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2012-08-29 5:16 ` zhenzhong.duan
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