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[Xen-devel] Re: A proposal - binary

To: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: A proposal - binary
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 12:47:35 +0200
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On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 12:01:52AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> There is no reason Summit or es7000 or any other subarchitecture 
> would need to do different  virtualization. In fact these subarchitectures 
> are pretty much obsolete by the generic subarchitecture and could be fully
> done by runtime switching.
>...

Has anyone measured the performance impact of rutime CLOCK_TICK_RATE 
switching (since this will no longer allow some compile time 
optimizations in jiffies.h)?

> -Andi

cu
Adrian

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