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From: Matty <matty91@gmail.com>
To: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: slow guest performance with build load, looking for ideas
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 06:41:11 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8bfce36e0907030341x32629f4er4bffc972a65c2e38@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A34C3D2.9020009@redhat.com>

On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 5:33 AM, Avi Kivity<avi@redhat.com> wrote:
>> I performed tests on two different systems to be sure it isn't related to
>> specific hardware.
>>
>
> What is the host cpu type?  On pre-Nehalem/Barcelona processors kvm has poor
> scalability in mmu intensive workloads like kernel builds.

Hey Avi,

Are there plans to address these scalability issues for
pre-Nehalem/Barcelona processors? I poked around the KVM website, and
I don't see anything related to this.

Thanks,
- Ryan
--
http://prefetch.net

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-07-03 10:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-12 21:04 slow guest performance with build load, looking for ideas Erik Jacobson
2009-06-14  9:33 ` Avi Kivity
2009-06-15 14:15   ` Erik Jacobson
2009-06-15 14:24     ` Avi Kivity
2009-06-15 15:25       ` Michael Tokarev
2009-06-15 15:27         ` Avi Kivity
2009-06-16  7:03           ` Michael Tokarev
2009-06-16  8:07             ` Avi Kivity
2009-06-18 23:07   ` Erik Jacobson
2009-06-28 14:17     ` Avi Kivity
2009-06-28 19:05       ` Erik Jacobson
2009-06-28 21:28         ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-01 21:41           ` Erik Jacobson
2009-07-02  5:48             ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-02  9:41               ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-03 15:43                 ` Mark McLoughlin
2009-07-03 16:28                   ` Erik Jacobson
2009-07-09  2:36                   ` Erik Jacobson
2009-07-09  7:48                     ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-09 18:01                       ` Erik Jacobson
2009-07-12  8:38                         ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-16 12:20                           ` Jes Sorensen
2009-07-25 14:33                             ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-03 10:41   ` Matty [this message]
2009-07-05  8:07     ` Avi Kivity

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