Re: [nVMX Test] Build kernel (defconfig) on L2, w/ VMCS Shadowing enabled on L0

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Kashyap Chamarthy <kashyap.cv@xxxxxxxxx> wrote on 13/05/2013 10:07:02 AM:

> 1/ With VMCS Shadowing *disabled* :
>
> - On L0  (Side note: I did reboot the host, once I disabled shadow VMCS)
> ====
>     $ cat /sys/module/kvm_intel/parameters/enable_shadow_vmcs
>     N
> ====
>
> - Building Kernel on L2:
> ====
> $ time make
> .....
> real    36m33.361s
> user    18m19.003s
> sys     17m6.208s
> ====
>
>
> 2/ With VMCS Shadowing *enabled* :
>
> - On L0  (Side note: I did reboot the host, once I enabled shadow VMCS)
> ====
>     $ cat /sys/module/kvm_intel/parameters/enable_shadow_vmcs
>     Y
> ====
>
> - Building Kernel on L2:
> ====
> $ time make
> .....
> real    62m53.853s
> user    32m32.724s
> sys     32m16.430s
> ====
>
> Comments ?

wow... according to this info shadow-vmcs is *significantly*
slowing nested while it should be the opposite.
Did you monitor the exit rate with and without shadow-vmcs ?

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