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[Xen-devel] Re: Performance overhead of paravirt_ops on native identifie

To: "Xin, Xiaohui" <xiaohui.xin@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: Performance overhead of paravirt_ops on native identified
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 21:27:38 -0700
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Xin, Xiaohui wrote:
> Remember we have done one experiment with "jump", the result shows seems the 
> overhead is even more than the call.
>   

I don't think you had mentioned that. You're saying that a
call->jmp->ret is slower than call->call->ret->ret?

J

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