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[Xen-users] Re: Xen is a feature

To: Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-users] Re: Xen is a feature
From: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2009 18:32:40 +0530
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On Sun, 2009-06-07 at 15:46 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > The 'slim hypervisor' model i was suggesting was a slimmed down 
> > _Linux_ kernel.
> >   
> 
> Yeah, I lost the context.  I should reduce my own context switching.
> 

It would be better if we monitor the switching, entry/exit and other
useful parameters in count and frequency using debugfs to increase the
performance.

Thanks,
--
JSR


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