On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 5:33 AM, Avi Kivity<avi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I performed tests on two different systems to be sure it isn't related to >> specific hardware. >> > > What is the host cpu type? On pre-Nehalem/Barcelona processors kvm has poor > scalability in mmu intensive workloads like kernel builds. Hey Avi, Are there plans to address these scalability issues for pre-Nehalem/Barcelona processors? I poked around the KVM website, and I don't see anything related to this. Thanks, - Ryan -- http://prefetch.net -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html