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RE: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.1 rc1 test report

To: "ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx" <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>, Haitao Shan <maillists.shan@xxxxxxxxx>, Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.1 rc1 test report
From: "Zheng, Shaohui" <shaohui.zheng@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 16:00:53 +0800
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Thanks haitao's clear explanation. I see that Ian is the author of series c/s 
22288~22312. Add Ian into the loop. 

Thanks & Regards,
Shaohui

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Haitao Shan [mailto:maillists.shan@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 2:24 PM
> To: Zheng, Shaohui; Keir Fraser
> Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.1 rc1 test report
> 
> > Performance(1 bug)
> > 1. guest boot very slowly without limit dom0 cpu number on EX (Intel)
> > http://bugzilla.xensource.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1719
> >
> 
> This bug happened 1 year before. Keir has made a fix with c/s 20841,
> which essentially holds the locked (and hence allocated) hypercall
> page so that next hypercall can reuse it without doing alloc and mlock
> again. By doing this, overhead of rschedule IPI as a result of
> frequent mlock is greatly reduced.
> 
> Late in year 2010, libxc introduced a new mechanism called hypercall
> buffers, as you can refer c/s 22288~22312. Keir's fix is dropped in
> this new framework. As a result, the bug appears again.
> Probably the new framework auther can pick up Keir's fix again?
> 
> Shan Haitao

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