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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] softtsc for PV domains

To: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Xen-Devel (E-mail)" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] softtsc for PV domains
From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:00:54 +0100
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On 27/08/2009 16:40, "Dan Magenheimer" <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> Changeset 20128 is a fixed and simplified version of this.
>> Please take a
>> look and test.

> Looks good and seems to work.  I'm not sure why you wanted
> to move the frequency info from the "t" debug key to the
> new "s" debug key... and I'm a bit worried that since the "s"
> key only registers if booted with softtsc, someone else will
> use the "s" key for something else and cause a conflict
> that won't be noticed until later.

The arch_ func thing was ugly and also broke ia64.

It'd be better probably to collect stats per-domain and then hook into
arch_dump_domain_info().

 -- Keir



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