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RE: [Xen-devel] SMP dom0 and AMD64? + some benchmark figures

To: "Nicholas Lee" <emptysands@xxxxxxxxx>, "Paul Larson" <plars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] SMP dom0 and AMD64? + some benchmark figures
From: "Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 00:07:41 +0100
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Thread-topic: [Xen-devel] SMP dom0 and AMD64? + some benchmark figures
 
> How does the performance profile work with SMP and the 
> interaction between domU and dom0 for CPU bound I/O?

It's almost always best for dom0 to have just a single vCPU.
 
> Are the CPU slices allocated independantly for each CPU in 
> SMP domains?

Yes. The scheduler is fairly simplistic for SMP domains at present, but
until we have a set of workloads to optimize against its not worth doing
anything more fancy.

Ian

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