Re: [Qemu-devel] About the light VM solution!

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 02:35:42PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 05/12/2017 13:06, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 02:33:13PM +0800, Yang Zhong wrote:
> Referring to your slides, the remaining points for fast boot are:
> 
> * parallelize VCPU initialization: do you have patches? :)
> 
> * q35-lite: any other machine options that have not been merged yet?
> 
> * SeaBIOS+Option ROM: can you take new numbers with DMA-based option
> ROM, or with qboot?
> 
> * guest kernel: my proposal to make Linux a multiboot kernel has been
> nacked upstream, but Oracle is working on supporting Xen PVH binaries in
> QEMU.  These are very similar to multiboot and in particular they're
> uncompressed.

By the way, sending a separate patch series for each optimization is
good.  That way patches requiring more discussion don't hold up patches
that could be applied immediately.  It also makes reviewing and
understanding performance results easier since there is only one change.

Stefan

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