Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] x86 hvm: freeze PIT/LAPIC timer emulation while its IRQ is masked

[Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 16/09/2009 07:46, "Kouya Shimura" <kouya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I remade the patch and measured the performance win. Attached is
> a benchmark program which I wrote. It is complied by cygwin's gcc
> by -O2 and runs on Windows XP(32bit). And my cpu is
> Intel Core2 Quad Q9450@xxxxxxxx
> 
> The result is that my patch saves 32 cycles(TSC) per one VM_EXIT(cpuid).
> (2696 tsc => 2664 tsc)
> 
> The patch is split to two. I'll post them in another mail.

That's really not enough of a win to bother with, is it.

 -- Keir



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