I'm currently running Oracle 11g on an OpenSolaris b134 PV-domU under
XenServer 5.6 on a Dell PowerEdge 6800.  I tried BFUing to b142, but
it was unstable so I beadm'd back to b134.

Anyways, I'm noticing high kernel CPU usage:

CPU states: 83.0% idle,  6.0% user, 10.9% kernel,  0.0% iowait,  0.0% swap

A "lockstat -kIW -D 20 sleep 30" shows high HYPERVISOR_sched_op calls,
but from what I read that's normal as it's used to idle VCPUs?

Profiling interrupt: 23368 events in 30.111 seconds (776 events/sec)

Count indv cuml rcnt     nsec Hottest CPU+PIL        Caller
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
20553  88%  88% 0.00    33437 cpu[7]                 HYPERVISOR_sched_op
  987   4%  92% 0.00    20889 cpu[6]                 (usermode)
  383   2%  94% 0.00    20547 cpu[3]                 bcopy
  116   0%  94% 0.00    18556 cpu[3]                 fletcher_4_native
   90   0%  95% 0.00    15753 cpu[3]                 mutex_enter

I noticed that the iowait is next to nothing.  Is the kernel usage
basically I/O, but because of the nature of the PV-domU, it's showing
up as kernel CPU and not I/O?  Or is it another problem completely?

Sorry if this has been brought up before.  I did some searching and
nothing stood out.

Thanks!
-Dustin
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