Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] linux-2.6.18: improve floppy behavior

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>]

On 10/11/2011 06:41 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
> Timing is significantly different from native both because Xen traps
> I/O port accesses and since DMA use is not possible (without intrusive
> changes). Due to the overhead of trapped port accesses, I/O is already
> slow enough (and Xen doesn't run on very old hardware anyway), so the
> situation can easily be improved by not enforcing REALLY_SLOW_IO.
>
> This doesn't completely address the issue - Xen just cannot guarantee
> scheduling of a particular vCPU with a maximum latency of about 80us
> (needed for the default FIFO threshold value of 10). The only complete
> solution would require making ISA DMA usable on Xen.

Just out of curiosity, was this in response to a real bug report or
something?

    J


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