[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

[Xen-devel] Re: [GIT PULL RFC] pvclock cleanups and pvclock vsyscall support



On 10/18/2009 05:18 PM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
On 10/18/09 15:43, Avi Kivity wrote:
On 10/16/2009 04:46 AM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
Care to cook up a patch to implement the kvm bits to make sure it all
works OK for you?

I've started to do that, but it occurs to me that we're missing out on
NUMA placement by forcing all clocks to be on the same page. OTOH, if
the clocks are heavily used, they'll stay in cache, and if not, who
cares.
Yes, I'd say so.  I'd expect the data to be very close to read-only, so
the lines should be shared pretty efficiently.


There wouldn't be any sharing since each clock is on its own cache line. But the point is valid regardless.

On the other hand, there's nothing to stop us from moving to multiple
pages in future (either to support NUMA placement, or just more than 64
cpus).

I'm already allocating multiple pages, so we'd just need to adjust the fixmap.

--
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.


_______________________________________________
Xen-devel mailing list
Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel


 


Rackspace

Lists.xenproject.org is hosted with RackSpace, monitoring our
servers 24x7x365 and backed by RackSpace's Fanatical Support®.