On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 11:09 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > On 01/04/2011 08:42 AM, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > If I were to, say, run a 256 CPU VM on my quad, would this help me get > > more hackbench or whatever oomph from my (256X80386/20:) box? > > First of all, you can't run 256 guests on x86 kvm. I didn't want 256 guests. Just one great big dog slow virtual playpen :) > > > Both Intel and AMD CPUs have a feature that detects when a virtual > > > CPU is spinning on a lock and will trap to the host. > > > > Does an Intel Q6600 have this trap gizmo (iow will this do anything at > > all for my little box if I were to try it out). > > Likely not. Run > http://git.kernel.org/?p=virt/kvm/qemu-kvm.git;a=blob_plain;f=kvm/scripts/vmxcap;hb=HEAD, > look for 'PAUSE-loop exiting'. I think the first processors to include > them were the Nehalem-EXs, and Westmeres have them as well. Oh darn, need new box to get all the toys. Thanks. -Mike -- 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
