RE: [Xen-ia64-devel][PATCH] optimization for windows

2007-04-27 Thread Xu, Anthony
>From: Alex Williamson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: 2007年4月27日 21:08 >To: Xu, Anthony >Cc: Jürgen Groß; xen-ia64-devel@lists.xensource.com >Subject: RE: [Xen-ia64-devel][PATCH] optimization for windows > >On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 17:36 +0800, Xu, Anthony wrote: >> >Wouldn't it be better to have so

Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] [RFC] paravirtualize stock swiotlb

2007-04-27 Thread Alex Williamson
On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 18:13 -0600, Alex Williamson wrote: > We need to get to a CONFIG_IA64_GENERIC kernel working, and the first > step to doing that seems to be fixing our usage of the i386 swiotlb and > pci-dma-xen. The patch below paravirtualizes lib/swiotlb.c and rips out > a lot of the code

[Xen-ia64-devel] [RFC] paravirtualize stock swiotlb

2007-04-27 Thread Alex Williamson
We need to get to a CONFIG_IA64_GENERIC kernel working, and the first step to doing that seems to be fixing our usage of the i386 swiotlb and pci-dma-xen. The patch below paravirtualizes lib/swiotlb.c and rips out a lot of the code we had around for supporting the i386 versions. It should be a

RE: [Xen-ia64-devel][PATCH] optimization for windows

2007-04-27 Thread Yang, Fred
>-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:xen-ia64-devel- >[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Williamson >Subject: RE: [Xen-ia64-devel][PATCH] optimization for windows > >On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 17:36 +0800, Xu, Anthony wrote: >> >Wouldn't it be better to have some generic featu

RE: [Xen-ia64-devel][PATCH] optimization for windows

2007-04-27 Thread Yang, Fred
>-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:xen-ia64-devel- >[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jürgen Groß >Xu, Anthony wrote: >> This is optimization for windows 2003. >> >> Windows use region 4 and region 5 for identity mapping. >> >> I see ~3% improvement when running specjbb2005

Re: [Xen-ia64-devel][PATCH] optimization for windows

2007-04-27 Thread Jürgen Groß
Alex Williamson wrote: > On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 17:36 +0800, Xu, Anthony wrote: >>> Wouldn't it be better to have some generic features like "region x identity >>> mapping with attributes y" which can be set via DomU configuration file? >> It is not convenient for user. >> And user can't know this i

RE: [Xen-ia64-devel][PATCH] optimization for windows

2007-04-27 Thread Alex Williamson
On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 17:36 +0800, Xu, Anthony wrote: > >Wouldn't it be better to have some generic features like "region x identity > >mapping with attributes y" which can be set via DomU configuration file? > It is not convenient for user. > And user can't know this information, if we provide thi

RE: [Xen-ia64-devel][PATCH] optimization for windows

2007-04-27 Thread Xu, Anthony
Thanks for your comments. >From: Jürgen Groß [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: 2007年4月27日 17:28 >To: Xu, Anthony >Cc: xen-ia64-devel@lists.xensource.com >Subject: Re: [Xen-ia64-devel][PATCH] optimization for windows > >Xu, Anthony wrote: >> This is optimization for windows 2003. >> >> Windows use r

Re: [Xen-ia64-devel][PATCH] optimization for windows

2007-04-27 Thread Jürgen Groß
Xu, Anthony wrote: > This is optimization for windows 2003. > > Windows use region 4 and region 5 for identity mapping. > > I see ~3% improvement when running specjbb2005 on guest windows after > applying this patch. > Did I understand this correct? If Region 7 preferred page size is 8kB, Regio

[Xen-ia64-devel][PATCH] optimization for windows

2007-04-27 Thread Xu, Anthony
This is optimization for windows 2003. Windows use region 4 and region 5 for identity mapping. I see ~3% improvement when running specjbb2005 on guest windows after applying this patch. Signed-off-by, Anthony Xu < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > winopt04271659.patch Description: winopt04271659.p

RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] [PATCH] Always insert entry to VHPT's head, or double TLB miss occurs.

2007-04-27 Thread Zhang, Xiantao
Hi Alex, Please drop the previous one. Don't need to disable IRQ during possible collision chain recycle, because it may need long time. Xiantao > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Zhang, Xiantao > Sent: 2007年4月26日 18:00 > To: