Re: Large increase in context switch rate

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Is this specific to Xen?, as a native kernel doesn't do more than ~3k
> cs/s with make -j3 on my dual core.
>   

No, it doesn't seem to be.  A CONFIG_PARAVIRT kernel running on bare 
hardware shows the same context switch rate.  Merely turning 
CONFIG_PARAVIRT on should have no effect on context switch rate (though, 
Alex, it would be worth double-checking, just to be sure).

   J
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