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RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] TSC scaling for live migration between platforms with different TSC frequecies
- To: John Levon <levon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxxxxxx>
- From: "Dong, Eddie" <eddie.dong@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 07:49:00 +0800
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- Cc: Ian Pratt <Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Dong, Eddie" <eddie.dong@xxxxxxxxx>, Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Zhang, Xiantao" <xiantao.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Thread-topic: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] TSC scaling for live migration between platforms with different TSC frequecies
>> question is: If it is important to ALWAYS emulate RDTSC,
>> can the Xen code be written to handle RDTSC emulation
>> much faster? If it could be made fast enough, the
This is in our plan. The perf overhead of sysbench.oltp could be ~10% due to
rdtsc exiting. But even with optimization, we still need this software scaling
as a fall back.
>I'd be amazed if this were possible.
We posted the idea several weeks ago. See
http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2009-04/msg00890.html.
Will that impact Solaris?
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