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Re: [Xen-devel][PATCH] don't split the whole large page while live migra

To: Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Xin, Xiaohui" <xiaohui.xin@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel][PATCH] don't split the whole large page while live migration with EPT
From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:16:21 +0100
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On 16/04/2009 13:51, "Tim Deegan" <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> At 13:47 +0100 on 16 Apr (1239889668), Xin, Xiaohui wrote:
>> We haven't measure the performance yet.
> 
> But you're planning to? :)

This would be definitely be a prerequisite for taking this patch. Our
suspicion is that 2MB pages will be too coarse grained for many workloads,
and we'll end up retransmitting superpages where only a handful of 4kB
sub-pages are actually dirtied.

 -- Keir



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