Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC][PATCH 0/10] Xen Hybrid extension support

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 04:42:21PM +0800, Sheng Yang wrote:
> Hi, Keir & Jeremy
> 
> This patchset enabled Xen Hybrid extension support.
> 
> As we know that PV guest have performance issue with x86_64 that guest kernel
> and userspace resistent in the same ring, then the necessary TLB flushes when
> switch between guest userspace and guest kernel cause overhead, and much more
> syscall overhead is also introduced. The Hybrid Extension estimated these
> overhead by putting guest kernel back in (non-root) ring0 then achieve the better
> performance than PV guest.

What was the overhead? Is there a step-by-step list of operations you did
to figure out the performance numbers? 

I am asking this b/c at some point I would like to compare the pv-ops vs native
and I am not entirely sure what is the best way to do this.

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