Re: [Qemu-devel] Avoiding nographic_timer exits

2011-09-30 Thread Jan Kiszka
On 2011-09-30 10:55, Jan Kiszka wrote: > On 2011-09-30 10:46, Jan Kiszka wrote: >> On 2011-09-30 10:18, David Gibson wrote: >>> With PowerKVM, exits from KVM to qemu are even more expensive than on >>> x86. One significant source of these we're finding (since we usually >>> work in -nographic mode

Re: [Qemu-devel] Avoiding nographic_timer exits

2011-09-30 Thread Jan Kiszka
On 2011-09-30 10:46, Jan Kiszka wrote: > On 2011-09-30 10:18, David Gibson wrote: >> With PowerKVM, exits from KVM to qemu are even more expensive than on >> x86. One significant source of these we're finding (since we usually >> work in -nographic mode) is the nographic_timer. >> >> At present, w

Re: [Qemu-devel] Avoiding nographic_timer exits

2011-09-30 Thread Jan Kiszka
On 2011-09-30 10:18, David Gibson wrote: > With PowerKVM, exits from KVM to qemu are even more expensive than on > x86. One significant source of these we're finding (since we usually > work in -nographic mode) is the nographic_timer. > > At present, we're using a hack to disable it, but that's o

[Qemu-devel] Avoiding nographic_timer exits

2011-09-30 Thread David Gibson
With PowerKVM, exits from KVM to qemu are even more expensive than on x86. One significant source of these we're finding (since we usually work in -nographic mode) is the nographic_timer. At present, we're using a hack to disable it, but that's obviously not a long term solution. From examinatio