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RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] SAL INFO virtualization

To: "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>, "Tristan Gingold" <Tristan.Gingold@xxxxxxxx>, <xen-ia64-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] SAL INFO virtualization
From: "Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins)" <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 08:55:08 -0700
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> >Sent: 2006年4月3日 15:09
> >Here are 3 propositions:
> >
> >1) Only dom0 has access to error records.  Therefore, dom0 should run
> >on every
> >CPUs.
> 
> Just an unrelated comment, Dom0 should always run on every physical 
> processor, which is the base requirement for performance 
> reason. It's not 
> "therefore" result of this specific issue and instead you can 
> take it as the 
> basic assumption for your thought. :-)
> 
> Thanks,
> Kevin

Hmmm... are you saying that on a 16-processor Xen system,
domain0 will run as a 16-way SMP guest?

This isn't the case today with Xen (x86 or ia64) and I
don't expect that it will work this way in the future
either.

Dan
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