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Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU fw_cfg DMA interface
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Stefan Hajnoczi |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU fw_cfg DMA interface |
Date: |
Thu, 6 Aug 2015 13:40:24 +0100 |
On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 1:37 PM, Marc Marí <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Aug 2015 13:27:16 +0100
> Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 12:00 PM, Marc Marí <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > When running a Linux guest on top of QEMU, using the -kernel
>> > options, this is the timing improvement for x86:
>> >
>> > QEMU commit 2be4f242b50a8 and SeaBIOS commit 908a58c1d5ff
>> > QEMU startup time: .078
>> > BIOS startup time: .060
>> > Kernel setup time: .578
>> > Total time: .716
>> >
>> > QEMU with this patch series and SeaBIOS with this patch series
>> > QEMU startup time: .080
>> > BIOS startup time: .039
>> > Kernel setup time: .002
>> > Total time: .121
>>
>> Impressive results!
>>
>> Is this a fully-featured QEMU build or did you disable things?
>>
>> Is this the default SeaBIOS build or did you disable things?
>>
>
> This is the default QEMU configuration I get for my system. It's not a
> fully-featured QEMU, but it has a lot of things enabled. SeaBIOS
> has a default configuration (with debugging disabled).
That's great.
Since SeaBIOS is a default configuration, the remaining BIOS startup
time is amenable to more optimizations in the future.
Stefan
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/5] Implement fw_cfg DMA interface, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/5] Implement fw_cfg DMA interface, Laszlo Ersek, 2015/08/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/5] Implement fw_cfg DMA interface, Laszlo Ersek, 2015/08/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/5] Implement fw_cfg DMA interface, Marc Marí, 2015/08/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/5] Implement fw_cfg DMA interface, Laszlo Ersek, 2015/08/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/5] Implement fw_cfg DMA interface, Marc Marí, 2015/08/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/5] Implement fw_cfg DMA interface, Eric Blake, 2015/08/07
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/5] Enable fw_cfg DMA interface for ARM, Marc Marí, 2015/08/06
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/5] Enable fw_cfg DMA interface for x86, Marc Marí, 2015/08/06
Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU fw_cfg DMA interface, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2015/08/06
[Qemu-devel] QEMU fw_cfg DMA interface, Marc Marí, 2015/08/31