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Re: [Xen-devel] RE: [Xen-changelog] [xen-unstable] [PV-ON-HVM] Don't gen

To: "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>, Steven Smith <sos22-xen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] RE: [Xen-changelog] [xen-unstable] [PV-ON-HVM] Don't generate lots ofspurious interrupts when using event
From: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 07:31:36 +0000
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On 3/11/06 1:24 am, "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> No, I didn't because when I reading your patch it simply indicated a
> spurious interrupt issue to be fixed there. Based on the description,
> I came up above as an alternative. It's quite interesting to see such fix
> with so obvious performance degradation. BTW, is it a typo? This logic
> should only matter for hvm guest, and why throughout between dom0
> and domU is affected which is more odd if true?

I think this is performance between dom0 and a Linux HVM domU using PV
drivers. Otherwise, as you say, it would make no sense!

 -- Keir



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