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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Fix performance issue brought by TSC-sync logic

To: "Yang, Xiaowei" <xiaowei.yang@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Fix performance issue brought by TSC-sync logic
From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 04:10:31 -0800
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On 23/02/2009 22:33, "Yang, Xiaowei" <xiaowei.yang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> For further improvement to reach the effect of 3), e.g. by taking care
> of cache consistance amongs CPUs, there will be more overhead. And
> considering the function is called per second, we are hesitating to do
> this. What's your idea?:)

Maybe we should see what that overhead is... Also we may not really need to
run that function every second.

 -- Keir



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