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Re: [Xen-devel] XCP: dom0 scalability

To: Dave Scott <Dave.Scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] XCP: dom0 scalability
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 16:16:15 -0700
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 On 10/08/2010 12:54 PM, Dave Scott wrote:
> I've added a draft of a doc called "the dom0 capacity crunch" to the wiki:
>
> http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XCP_Overview?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=xcp_dom0_capacity_crunch.pdf
>
> The doc contains a proposal for dealing with ever-increasing dom0 load, 
> primarily by moving the load out of dom0 (stubdoms, helper domains etc) and, 
> where still necessary, tweaking the number of dom0 vcpus. I think this is 
> becoming pretty important and we'll need to work on this asap.

I'm a big fan of disaggregation, but from a performance perspective
xenstored seems pretty insignificant.

    J

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