Enabling PARAVIRT stuff in Fedora kernels
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Wed Jul 9 03:53:37 UTC 2008
On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 08:25:31PM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
> > 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?
>
> And actually the options I'm really hoping for are KVM_GUEST and
> KVM_CLOCK -- sorry for my confusion and sloppy grep for "VIRT".
Umm, they're also all enabled.
Dave
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