Nakajima, Jun wrote:
> Most of H/W-virtualization capable processors out there don't support
> that feature today. I think the decision (kvm or qemu) should be done
> based on performance data. I'm not worried about maintenance issues; the
> APIC code is not expected to change frequently. I'm a bit worried about
> extra complexity caused by such split, though. 
>
>   

In principle we could measure the performance cost today with the pv-net 
driver; however it still does a lot of copies which could be eliminated.

> BTW, I see CPU utilization of qemu is almost always 99% in the top
> command when I run kernel build in an x86-64 Linux guest.
>   

Isn't that expected? if your guest image is mostly cached in the host, 
the guest would have nothing to block on.

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


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