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Re: [Xen-devel] early_cpu_init() and identify_cpu()


  • To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 08:50:08 +0100
  • Delivery-date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:48:05 -0700
  • List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xensource.com>
  • Thread-index: AcfIRxhXVvBGJjQ6EdykoQAX8io7RQ==
  • Thread-topic: [Xen-devel] early_cpu_init() and identify_cpu()

On 16/7/07 09:18, "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> How much faster is scrolling of WC framebuffer on your test system?
> 
> That's a win of about 30%, and using movsq in memcpy() is another win of
> about 50%. Will probably create a vidmemmove()...

That still totally sucks then. Paging a full screen of text of, say 60
lines, done line-by-line will still take, say 60*300ms == 20 seconds(ish).

Implement this as a command-line option only if you must have it.

 -- Keir


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