On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 02:37:45PM +0200, Marc Marí wrote: > On Thu, 6 Aug 2015 13:27:16 +0100 > Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 12:00 PM, Marc Marí <mar...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > When running a Linux guest on top of QEMU, using the -kernel > > > options, this is the timing improvement for x86: > > > > > > QEMU commit 2be4f242b50a8 and SeaBIOS commit 908a58c1d5ff > > > QEMU startup time: .078 > > > BIOS startup time: .060 > > > Kernel setup time: .578 > > > Total time: .716 > > > > > > QEMU with this patch series and SeaBIOS with this patch series > > > QEMU startup time: .080 > > > BIOS startup time: .039 > > > Kernel setup time: .002 > > > Total time: .121 > > > > Impressive results! > > > > Is this a fully-featured QEMU build or did you disable things? > > > > Is this the default SeaBIOS build or did you disable things? > > > > This is the default QEMU configuration I get for my system. It's not a > fully-featured QEMU, but it has a lot of things enabled. SeaBIOS > has a default configuration (with debugging disabled).
Thanks! What qemu command-line did you use during testing? Also, do you have a quick primer on how to use the kvm trace stuff to obtain timings? -Kevin _______________________________________________ SeaBIOS mailing list SeaBIOS@seabios.org http://www.seabios.org/mailman/listinfo/seabios