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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Xen-users] Xen + QEMU Accelerator
M.A. Williamson wrote:
Has anybody tried to use QEMU Accelerator (kqemu) with Xen? Any luck
with improving performance then?
I rather doubt that it'll work - it bangs the hardware direcly in a
few ways that isn't allowed for Xen guests.
It won't. The kqemu docs mention this specifically.
The most promising approach would probably be a port of the QVM86
module (an open source accelerator for Qemu) but this is unable to
accelerate kernel-mode code and is therefore limited compared to
Fabrice's kqemu.
qvm86 has suffered a little bit of bit rot recently however Jim Brown
was attempting to port qvm86 to Xen at one point. It's definitely quite
possible although it would require a fair bit of work I think.
From a quick reading of the code, I suspect that more abstraction
would be
necessary to encapsulate the direct hardware manipulations.
I'm cc-ing xen-devel in case anybody there has looked at / thought
about / talked abut this. Any further posters should remove xen-devel
if they have usage-related queries, since we like to keep that list
solely for development-related traffic.
There has been a lot of discussion lately about moving a new full
version of qemu into the Xen tree for HVM domains. One of the
advantages of this is that when IO exits are taken, a block of
instructions can be emulated to amortize the cost of a world switch when
exits occur back-to-back. You would essentially just always emulate
1000 instructions or something.
I think it becomes pretty obvious that if we do this for HVM domains,
it's quite simple to extend this idea to emulate instructions until you
transition back to ring 3. This would essentially give you qvm86-like
functionality. It also gives you the ability to run HVM domains in the
absence of VT/SVM which I think is a pretty useful feature (although you
would take a performance hit probably).
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
Cheers,
mark
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