On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 04:49:27PM +0100, Anders wrote:
> Marcelo Tosatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 12:19:20PM +0100, Anders wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> >> How do you get that high consumption? What combination of clocks/hz on
> >> host/guest are you using?
> >
> > CONFIG_HZ=250
> 
> Okay, with nohz=off (in the guest) I also see some higher load. I
> didn't try the patch, though.
> 
> > UP guests use TSC as a clocksource by default, and TSC reads won't
> > cause a VMExit.
> 
> So for the lightest load (power saving), I should use UP and TSC?

Yes.

As you note NOHZ also helps dramatically.


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