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RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] [PATCH] XEN: accelerate guest tr search.


  • To: "Xu, Anthony" <anthony.xu@xxxxxxxxx>, "Magenheimer, Dan \(HP Labs Fort Collins\)" <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxx>, <xen-ia64-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: "Yang, Fred" <fred.yang@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 20:27:23 -0800
  • Delivery-date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 04:27:50 +0000
  • List-id: Discussion of the ia64 port of Xen <xen-ia64-devel.lists.xensource.com>
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  • Thread-topic: [Xen-ia64-devel] [PATCH] XEN: accelerate guest tr search.

Xu, Anthony wrote:
>> 3) I think we should be very careful about making changes
>>   that are intended to improve performance without doing any
>>   benchmarking.  Many times I have seen code that was intended
>>   to improve performance actually -- surprise! -- result in
>>   performance degradation.
> Agree, but it's unpractical to let developer to do benchmark testing,
> Since Fujitsu will deliver regular performance reports, I think we
> could 
> depend on these reports to find out the patch which cause performance
> degradation. 
The correct approach is to get all the necessary features in, and then
do the system-wide benchmark and fine-tuning, rather than local tweak or
small benchmarks for large scaled system like Itanium
-Fred

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