On 15.06.2011, at 12:50, Alexander Graf wrote: > > On 15.06.2011, at 01:34, Scott Wood wrote: > >> This is a shared page used for paravirtualization. It is always present >> in the guest kernel's effective address space at the address indicated >> by the hypercall that enables it. >> >> The physical address specified by the hypercall is not used, as >> e500 does not have real mode. > > What are your results when using the magic page? I have the following numbers with your patches applied: > > == bare metal == > > root@e500:~/kvm# time for i in {1..1000}; do /bin/echo > /dev/null; done > > real 0m5.445s > user 0m0.204s > sys 0m0.572s > > > == no hypervisor node (magic page not used) == > > debian-powerpc:~# time for i in {1..1000}; do /bin/echo > /dev/null; done > > real 1m36.362s > user 0m13.224s > sys 1m11.084s > > > == with hypervisor node (magic page used) == > > debian-powerpc:~# time for i in {1..1000}; do /bin/echo > /dev/null; done > > real 2m28.888s > user 0m9.248s > sys 1m4.016s Interesting - now I'm down to: debian-powerpc:~# time for i in {1..1000}; do /bin/echo > /dev/null; done real 1m25.008s user 0m9.224s sys 1m5.720s Oh well, let's hope I did something wrong before :). Alex -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm-ppc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html