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Re: Re: [Xen-users] XEON 5640 ENABLE C3 / C6 and other settings

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Subject: Re: Re: [Xen-users] XEON 5640 ENABLE C3 / C6 and other settings
From: Matej Zary <matej.zary@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:06:42 +0200
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Thread-topic: Re: [Xen-users] XEON 5640 ENABLE C3 / C6 and other settings
On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 01:09 +1000, David Moore wrote:
> There are a number of settings in the Bios of the servers I build can 
> somebody clarify best practice settings for the Xen Cloud 0.5
> 
>  () = MY SETTINGS
> 
> PROCESSOR QPI FREQ SELECT (AUTO MAX)
> QPI TURBO BOOST (ENABLED)
> ENHANCED INTEL TURBO BOOST (ENABLED)
> ENHANCED INTEL SPEEDSTEP (R) TECH (ENABLED)
> TURBO PERFORMANCE BIAS (ENHANCED)
> PROCESSOR C3 (ACPI C3)
> PROCESSOR C6 (ENABLED)
> INTEL HYPER-THREADING TECH (ENABLED)
> CORE MULTIPROCESSING (ALL)
> EXECUTE DISABLE BIT (ENABLED)
> INTEL VT TECH (ENABLED)
> INTEL VT FOR DIRECTED I/O (DISABLED)
> HARDWARE PRE-FETCHER (ENABLED)
>  DIRECT CACH ACCESS (DCA) (ENABLED)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Regards David Moore
> moored@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Hi there,


I'm not expert in this area, but as far i remember, using Hyper
Threading in Xen used to be counterproductive, because the fake HT cores
doesn't have own processing power (if this has changed, somebody correct
me please! :) ).

Also the INTEL VT FOR DIRECTED I/O functionality might be useful for
pci-passthru scenarios. (truth to be said, if you are going for XCP, I
guess you will be not using pci-passthru )


Regards

Matej 

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