Re: [patch 0/3] kvm tool: Serial emulation overhaul

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Dec 12 2011 - 12:21:43 EST



* Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > [*] Also, those 10K cycles include some significant Qemu
> > overhead - a couple of thousand cycles - that should be much
> > lower in the tools/kvm case.
>
> Are all the traps going into qemu - is KVM still that braindead ?

I don't know what exactly Marcelo has measured - it seems a PIO
trap handled by the VM monitor process - i.e. Qemu in that case.

Thanks,

Ingo
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