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[Xen-users] SMP enabled Dom0 or not?

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Subject: [Xen-users] SMP enabled Dom0 or not?
From: Stefan de Konink <skinkie@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 01:27:35 +0200
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Hello,


I wonder if the performance of a Xen machine can be increased by disabling SMP in the Linux kernel by default, basically having one of the 8 processors tied to dom0.

In my scenario I use NFS or iSCSI as file backend. Looking at NFS there will be a lot of tapdrives, while in the iSCSI scenario there is fewer overhead in userspace processes.

Could anyone give me a hint on the performance increase or decrease using SMP vs Uniprocessor?


Stefan

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