Re: system call time increase when turning on CONFIG_PARAVIRT

From: Tim Chen
Date: Fri Mar 02 2007 - 19:03:31 EST


On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 13:54 -0800, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:

> [ I assume you're talking about running on native hardware. ]
>
That's correct.

> I haven't done any detailed measurements on what effect this will have,
> but it does bring the actual executed instruction stream much closer to
> the !CONFIG_PARAVIRT case, and so I would hope it would recover most or
> all of the performance loss you've noticed.
>
I also hope that the performance can be recovered as this option could
enabled in distributions' kernels in future.

Tim
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