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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu:cpuid: speedup test by 3x times if grub2 i


From: Paolo Bonzini
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu:cpuid: speedup test by 3x times if grub2 is available
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:13:18 +0100
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Il 14/02/2013 12:18, Eduardo Habkost ha scritto:
>> > qemu boots from disk image 3 times faster than direct kernel load.
> That's surprising. Do you have any idea why that happens?

Because kernel load uses MMIO (from fw_cfg), while booting from disk
uses at worst PCI DMA and at best virtio.

Paolo



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