Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] use event channel to improve suspend speed

[Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/5/07 00:00, "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> It would be interesting to know what aspect of the xenstore interaction
> is responsible for the slowdown. In particular, whether it is a fundamental
> architectural constraint, or whether it is merely due to the poor performance
> of the current impl. We already know from previous tests that XenD impl of
> transactions absolutely kills performance of various XenD operations due to
> the vast amount of unneccessary I/O it does.
> 
> If fixing the XenstoreD transaction code were to help suspend performance
> too, it might be a better option than re-writing all code which touches
> xenstore. A quick test of putting /var/lib/xenstored on a ramdisk would
> be a way of testing whether its the I/O which is hurting suspend time.

Yes. We could go either way -- it wouldn't be too bad to add support via
dynamic VIRQ_DOM_EXC for example, or add other things to get xenstore off
the critical path for save/restore. But if the problem is that xenstored
sucks it probably is worth investing a bit of time to tackle the problem
directly and see where the time is going. We could end up with optimisations
which have benefits beyond just save/restore.

 -- Keir



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