On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 08:34 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > Zachary Amsden wrote: > > This patch provides hypercalls for the i386 port I/O instructions, > > which vastly helps guests which use native-style drivers. For certain > > VMI workloads, this provides a performance boost of up to 30%. We > > expect KVM and lguest to be able to achieve similar gains on I/O > > intensive workloads. > > Won't these workloads be better off using paravirtualized drivers? > i.e., do the native drivers with paravirt I/O instructions get anywhere > near the performance of paravirt drivers? This patch also means I can kill off the emulation code in drivers/lguest/core.c, which is a real relief. Cheers, Rusty. _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
