Enabling PARAVIRT stuff in Fedora kernels
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Wed Jul 9 03:52:58 UTC 2008
On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 08:18:17PM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just tried the latest Fedora rawhide kernel
> (2.6.26-0.115.rc9.git2.fc10.x86_64) in a kvm virtual machine, and I
> noticed that it doesn't have all the paravirtual goodness available in
> 2.6.26. The cost of setting PARAVIRT, PARAVIRT_CLOCK and
> PARAVIRT_GUEST to 'y' is suposed to be pretty minimal on bare metal,
> and it gives a nice boost running inside kvm. Have you guys
> considered turning on these options for Fedora kernels?
Those should be getting set. Except for 64bit, which was broken
a while ago. guess we should retry that.
Dave
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