Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756824AbZIVSQW (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:16:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755745AbZIVSQV (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:16:21 -0400 Received: from claw.goop.org ([74.207.240.146]:33429 "EHLO claw.goop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753363AbZIVSQV (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:16:21 -0400 Message-ID: <4AB91478.2050508@goop.org> Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:16:24 -0700 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090814 Fedora/3.0-2.6.b3.fc11 Lightning/1.0pre Thunderbird/3.0b3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar CC: Avi Kivity , Arjan van de Ven , Alok Kataria , Thomas Gleixner , "H. Peter Anvin" , the arch/x86 maintainers , LKML , Chris Wright , Rusty Russell , "virtualization@lists.osdl.org" , Greg KH , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Paravirtualization on VMware's Platform [VMI]. References: <1253233028.19731.63.camel@ank32.eng.vmware.com> <20090919224430.GB9567@kroah.com> <1253419185.3253.21.camel@ank32.eng.vmware.com> <20090920074247.GA5733@elte.hu> <20090920095239.456ad6f2@infradead.org> <4AB5EF25.9070502@redhat.com> <4AB64EFC.10707@goop.org> <20090922080913.GB1475@elte.hu> <4AB900CC.7090409@goop.org> <20090922180216.GA16789@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20090922180216.GA16789@elte.hu> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.97a Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 668 Lines: 17 On 09/22/09 11:02, Ingo Molnar wrote: > obviously they are workload dependent - that's why numbers were posted > in this thread with various workloads. Do you concur with those > conclusions that they are generally a speedup over paravirt? If not, > which are the workloads where paravirt offers significant speedup over > hardware acceleration? > We're not in a position to do any useful measurements yet. J -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/