Re: [kvm-devel] kvm somehow exempt from frequency scaling?

2007-04-24 Thread Avi Kivity
David Abrahams wrote: I'll try to reproduce this locally, right now I'm completely bewildered by this. FYI, if I listen to the radio in windows media player, I don't see the effect. KVM will take 18% or so of the CPU even when not on a visible workspace. And since

Re: [kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-20 release

2007-04-24 Thread Christian Hesse
On Tuesday 24 April 2007, Avi Kivity wrote: Jeff Chua wrote: On 4/22/07, Avi Kivity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Significant cpu performance improvements (esp. for 32-bit guests on 64-bit hosts), as well as Windows 2000 support (without acpi). Avi, Ecountered the following error with

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 3/5] KVM: Adds ability to preepmt an executing VCPU

2007-04-24 Thread Avi Kivity
Gregory Haskins wrote: On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 4:50 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Avi Kivity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gregory Haskins wrote: /* +* Signal that we have transitioned back to host mode +*/ + spin_lock_irqsave(vcpu- irq.lock, irq_flags);

Re: [kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-20 release

2007-04-24 Thread Avi Kivity
Christian Hesse wrote: On Tuesday 24 April 2007, Avi Kivity wrote: Jeff Chua wrote: On 4/22/07, Avi Kivity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Significant cpu performance improvements (esp. for 32-bit guests on 64-bit hosts), as well as Windows 2000 support (without acpi).

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 4/5] KVM: Local-APIC interface cleanup

2007-04-24 Thread Avi Kivity
Gregory Haskins wrote: On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 4:54 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Avi Kivity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gregory Haskins wrote: Adds an abstraction to the LAPIC logic so that we can later substitute it for an in- kernel model. This is

Re: [kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-20 release

2007-04-24 Thread Christian Hesse
On Tuesday 24 April 2007, Avi Kivity wrote: Christian Hesse wrote: On Tuesday 24 April 2007, Avi Kivity wrote: Jeff Chua wrote: On 4/22/07, Avi Kivity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Significant cpu performance improvements (esp. for 32-bit guests on 64-bit hosts), as well as Windows 2000

Re: [kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-20 release

2007-04-24 Thread Avi Kivity
Christian Hesse wrote: It may be the cpuid strangeness that Rusty saw. Can you try the attached patch? No, that does not help. Ah, I see it. The Core processor does not have the STAR msr. Can you try backing out the attached patch? -- Do not meddle in the internals of kernels,

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] Lazy FPU for SVM

2007-04-24 Thread Avi Kivity
Anthony Liguori wrote: [updated patch] Applied. Hard to say exactly because of the noise. I did two runs of 4 test/vmexit: Before 4091, 4194, 4559, 4439 After: 3979, 4324, 3918, 3910 So there's definitely a speedup, but probably only 100-200 cycles. Running on an idle, headless

Re: [kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-20 release

2007-04-24 Thread Jeff Chua
On 4/24/07, Christian Hesse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 24 April 2007, Avi Kivity wrote: Christian Hesse wrote: It may be the cpuid strangeness that Rusty saw. Can you try the attached patch? No, that does not help. Ah, I see it. The Core processor does not have the

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] Lazy FPU for SVM

2007-04-24 Thread Avi Kivity
Anthony Liguori wrote: Avi Kivity wrote: Anthony Liguori wrote: [updated patch] Applied. Hard to say exactly because of the noise. I did two runs of 4 test/vmexit: Before 4091, 4194, 4559, 4439 After: 3979, 4324, 3918, 3910 So there's definitely a speedup, but probably only