Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 01:49:41PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
Test is 1 million gettimeofday calls, Xeon 1.60GHz with 4MB L2.

guest (qemu emulation):
cycles:1189759332

guest (in-kernel emulation):
cycles:628046412

guest (direct pmtimer):
cycles:230372934

host (TSC):
cycles:14862774

Ratio is 1:15:80

Looks like direct pmtimer is still quite slow. Are there any exits with direct pmtimer, or is it all due to the ioport latency?

host (pmtimer):
cycles:225768390

So its getting close-to-native performance. As you mentioned earlier,
acpi_pm can't benefit from vsyscalls.


Yes, but the host will use tsc (on a modern host with a stable tsc).

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