[PATCH v2 00/17] KVM/ARM: Guest Entry/Exit optimizations

[Mihai Claudiu Caraman]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc Zyngier [mailto:marc.zyngier at arm.com] 
> Sent: Monday, February 29, 2016 10:26 AM
> To: Mihai Claudiu Caraman <mike.caraman at nxp.com>; Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org>
> Cc: kvm at vger.kernel.org; linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org; kvmarm at lists.cs.columbia.edu
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/17] KVM/ARM: Guest Entry/Exit optimizations
> 
> On 29/02/16 00:57, Mihai Claudiu Caraman wrote:
> > Reported-by: Mihai Caraman <mihai.caraman at freescale.com>
> 
> Reported-by? Where? Did I miss an email (wouldn't surprise me)?

Private meeting between ARM and Freescale/NXP, it was me.

> 
> > Tested-by: Mihai Caraman <mihai.caraman at freescale.com>
> > 
> > 40% improvements here and there will make the difference. 
> 
> I'm sceptical that you will see a significant improvement

1% improvement with this patch is good enough.

> on any *realistic* workload

You will hear about this sooner than you think ;-)

> , but thanks for testing!

Thanks for the patch, we plan to contribute as well.

> 
> 	M.
> -- 
> Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny...

-Mike