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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] Allow removing writable mappings from splint

To: "George Dunlap" <George.Dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] Allow removing writable mappings from splintered page tables.
From: "Todd Deshane" <deshantm@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:30:42 -0400
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On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 6:38 AM, George Dunlap
<George.Dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> And your original numbers showed elapsed time to be 527s for KVM, so
> now Xen is 8 seconds in the lead for HVM Linux. :-)  Thanks for the
> help tracking this down!
>

KVM is also working on improved page table algorithms
http://www.mail-archive.com/kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg03562.html

I think the competition is a good thing.

> If you have time, could you take another 30-second trace with the new
> changes in, just for fun?  I'll take a quick look and see if there's
> any other low-hanging fruit to grab.
>

Sent the trace to you with another service called sendspace, since, for
some reason, the trace file was much bigger.

Todd

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