On Fri, 18 May 2012, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 05:28:40AM -0700, Paul Goyette wrote:Both 1- and 4-CPU tests are running from the same image installed in a qemu virtual environment. Here's the dmesg from the boot:Does this happen on real hardware? qemu's MP emulation is particularly slow.
I haven't run the tests "on real hardware" for a rather long time, but I don't remember seeing such a significant difference.
I was not aware of qemu emulation being so slow. Perhaps I should not bother pursuing this further ...
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