Re: [Xen-devel] alloc_heap_pages is low efficient with more CPUs

[Keir Fraser <keir.xen@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/10/2012 23:39, "Mukesh Rathor" <mukesh.rathor@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, 12 Oct 2012 20:24:16 +0800
> tupeng212 <tupeng212@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> With 16 CPUs you find domain startup takes 3s always.
>> :No
>> With 16CPUs, first 0.3s, second 3s
>> With 64CPUs, first 3s, second 30s.
>> 
>> With 64 CPUs you find it takes 3s first time, then 30s in future?
>> : Yes
> 
> ...........
> 
> I had seen this a while ago, it was always page scrubbing. That
> algoright was changed IIRC, so not sure if still could be the cause.

Tupeng,

If the tlbflush_filter() and cpumask_or() lines are commented out from the
if(need_tlbflush) block in alloc_heap_pages(), what are the domain creation
times like then? By the way it looks like you are not using xen-unstable or
xen-4.2, can you try with one of these later versions of Xen?

 -- Keir

> My 2 cents,
> thanks
> Mukesh



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