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Re: [PATCH 0/6] xen/x86: PV boot speedup
- To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>, Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
- From: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2021 09:17:12 -0400
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- Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>, lkml <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Delivery-date: Wed, 27 Oct 2021 13:17:44 +0000
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On 9/30/21 8:33 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
The observed (by the human eye) performance difference of early boot
between native and PV-on-Xen was just too large to not look into. As
it turns out, gaining performance back wasn't all that difficult.
While the series (re)introduces a small number of PTWR emulations on
the boot path (from phys_pte_init()), there has been a much larger
number of them post-boot. Hence I think if this was of concern, the
post-boot instances would want eliminating first.
Some of the later changes aren'r directly related to the main goal of
the series; these address aspects noticed while doing the investigation.
1: streamline set_pte_mfn()
2: restore (fix) xen_set_pte_init() behavior
3: adjust xen_set_fixmap()
4: adjust handling of the L3 user vsyscall special page table
5: there's no highmem anymore in PV mode
6: restrict PV Dom0 identity mapping
Applied to for-linus-5.16
-boris
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