Re: Utility of PV on non-obsolete hardware

[Cherry G. Mathew <cherry%zyx.in@localhost>]

tg%gmplib.org@localhost (Torbjörn Granlund) writes:


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>
> While I (no longer) use NetBSD for Dom0, I'm very interested in the
> performance effects of PVH for Dom0.  My Gentoo Dom0s are dreadfully
> slow, and I haven't dared play with Xen 4.12's "tech preview" support
> for Dom0 PVH.
>
> Do you think PVH for Dom0 will make a speed difference for DomU?

I have a theory that it may help with dom0 qemu emulation and backend
driver threading. For NetBSD dom0, both should make a difference. Would
look forward to your numbers once we have them.

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~cherry