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Re: amd64 MP (was Re: pae MP on cherry-xenmp)



On 13.10.2011 01:46, David Howland wrote:
The 'time' column for the NetBSD domain counts up every second even
though 'top' in netbsd-51 shows both CPU's as 100% idle. Basically, what
you are seeing is a timer of how long the domain has been running since
I created it.

I don't know what this means, but I report it because it seems to be
different from all the other OS in the list.

Without looking at the code, I would say that the idle() loop for a CPU does not yield to hypervisor correctly. Or that something keeps kicking vCPUs out of it.

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Jean-Yves Migeon
jeanyves.migeon%free.fr@localhost


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