Re: [PATCH] xen: core dom0 support

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Sun Mar 08 2009 - 18:01:03 EST


Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> Associativity effects do depend on the kernel image layout and
> on the precise allocations of kernel data structure allocations
> we do during bootup - and they dont really change after that.
>

By the way, there is a really easy way (if a bit time consuming) to get
the actual variability here -- you have to reboot between runs, even for
the same kernel. It makes the data collection take a long time, but at
least it can be scripted.

-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.

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