Subject: Re: SMP and Xen
To: None <port-xen@netbsd.org>
From: haad <haaaad@gmail.com>
List: port-xen
Date: 01/02/2007 23:43:52
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Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> I have a dual-processor machine I'm using for Xen. A few questions...
>
> First -- is it safe to use SMP with Xen? I've heard contradictory
> opinions on this. This is Xen3.0.3 on 4.0beta2.
>
> Second -- should my Dom0 see both CPUs? Currently, it does not.
>
> Third -- is there any performance benefit to setting 'vcpus' to 2 (for
> a DomU that would benefit from that)? That is, will a DomU actually
> run on more than one CPU?
>
>
>
> --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
>
If there is no performance benefit ,this feature can be used to test SMP on
netbsd ;). For domU you don't need serial console to debug .
Regards
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