On 12/26/2011 11:05 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
On 12/26/2011 05:14 AM, Nikunj A Dadhania wrote:
btw you can get an additional speedup by enabling x2apic, for
default_send_IPI_mask_logical().
In the host?
In the host, for the guest:
qemu -cpu ...,+x2apic
It seems to me that we should improve our default flags.
So many times users fail to submit the proper huge command-line options
that we require. Honestly, we can't blame them, there are so many flags
and so many use cases its just too hard to get it right for humans.
I propose a basic idea and folks are welcome to discuss it:
1. Improve qemu/kvm defaults
Break the current backward compatibility (but add a --default-
backward-compat-mode) and set better values for:
- rtc slew time
- cache=none
- x2apic, maybe enhance qemu64 or move to -cpu host?
- aio=native|threads (auto-sense?)
- use virtio devices by default
- more?
Different defaults may be picked automatically when TCG|KVM used.
2. External hardening configuration file kept in qemu.git
For non qemu/kvm specific definitions like the io scheduler we
should maintain a script in our tree that sets/sense the optimal
settings of the host kernel (maybe similar one for the guest).
HTH,
Dor
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