On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 7:32 PM, Roger Pau Monné <roger....@citrix.com> wrote: > Hello, > > Recently Justin T Gibbs, Will Andrews and myself have been working on > improving the Xen support in FreeBSD. The main goal of this was to bring > full PVHVM support to FreeBSD, right now FreeBSD is only using PV > interfaces for disk and network interfaces when running as a HVM guest. > The main benefits of this changes are that Xen virtual interrupts (event > channels) are now delivered to the guest using a vector callback > injection, that is a per-cpu mechanism that allows each vCPU to have > different interrupts assigned, so for example network and disk > interrupts are delivered to different vCPUs in order to improve > performance. With this changes FreeBSD also uses PV timers when running > as an HVM guest, which should provide better time keeping and reduce the > virtualization overhead, since emulated timers are no longer used. PV > IPIs can also be used inside a HVM guest, but this will be implemented > later. > > Right now the code is in a state where it can be tested by users, so we > would like to encourage FreeBSD and Xen users to test it and provide > feedback.
Is this something we should try to put on the Xen.org blog? -George _______________________________________________ freebsd-xen@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-xen To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-xen-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"