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Date:      Thu, 5 Dec 2019 11:24:58 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
To:        Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@puchar.net>
Cc:        Darius Mihai <dariusmihaim@gmail.com>, "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bhyve+windows 7 multicore performance
Message-ID:  <201912051924.xB5JOw7V045421@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1912051043510.83609@puchar.net>

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> 
> On Wed, 4 Dec 2019, Darius Mihai wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, Dec 4, 2019, 18:22 Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@puchar.net> wrote:
> >       >>>
> >       >>> Try 4 cores, and drop the priority boost, you may be causeing
> >       >>
> >       >> Well i need more cores than 4 for that VM.
> >       >> I will try even number (10) and no nice.
> >       >
> >       > If 4 cores performs better than 10 cores why would you want
> >
> >       performs better per thread. Not as total.
> > 
> >
> >       removing -P option improved performance a bit. Well - a large bit.
> > 
> > 
> > If I remember correctly, windows runs PAUSE very often when idling,
> > so having many cores that stay idle may slow down the system
> > since -P forces context switches when that instruction is
> > executed.?
> > 
> > Darius
> Possibly. But for sure - this made things faster a lot. Actually close to 
> bare metal performance.

Does this close the issue of performance for you and I can remove this
thread from my list of active investigation?

THanks,
-- 
Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes@freebsd.org



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