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

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On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Ren, Yongjie <yongjie.ren@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Kashyap Chamarthy [mailto:kashyap.cv@xxxxxxxxx]
>> Sent: Monday, May 13, 2013 3:07 PM
>> To: Ren, Yongjie
>> Cc: kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Re: [nVMX Test] Build kernel (defconfig) on L2, w/ VMCS
>> Shadowing enabled on L0
>>
>> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Kashyap Chamarthy
>> <kashyap.cv@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Comments ?
>>
> My test result is different from yours. In my test several days ago,
> when enabling shadow VMCS, I can get ~4% performance improvement
> in kernel build test in L2. Hardware is also a Haswell machine.
> shadow VMCS disabled, build time: 649 seconds
> shadow VMCS enabled, build time: 627 seconds.

Let me try it on a new L2 guest to see if I can reproduce the behavior
I reported reliably.

Meantime, I noted my entire procedure
https://github.com/kashyapc/nvmx-haswell/blob/master/SETUP-nVMX.rst

Do you see any anomalies ?

/kashyap
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