On 09/18/2009 03:17 AM, Alok Kataria wrote: > Hi, > > We ran a few experiments to compare performance of VMware's > paravirtualization technique (VMI) and hardware MMU technologies (HWMMU) > on VMware's hypervisor. > > To give some background, VMI is VMware's paravirtualization > specification which tries to optimize CPU and MMU operations of the > guest operating system. For more information take a look at this > http://www.vmware.com/interfaces/paravirtualization.html > > In most of the benchmarks, EPT/NPT (hwmmu) technologies are at par or > provide better performance compared to VMI. > The experiments included comparing performance across various micro and > real world like benchmarks. >
We've reached a similar conclusion for kvm pvmmu vs ept/npt. -- Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic. _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
