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I ran a bisect to find out when Windows XP 32 bit becomes unusably slow. And I found the changeset that caused it. ========== The problem: ========== Windows 8 64 bit and 32 bit run fast and fine in the newest xen versions. Windows XP 32 bit runs unusably slow in anything new that I built from xen-unstable, but runs fast in 4.1.2 and 4.1.3 stable. While it is running slow, "xm top" or

...nd != early_info.mem.bank[i].start ) + break; + + ram_size += early_info.mem.bank[i].size; + ram_end += early_info.mem.bank[i].size; + } + + if ( i != early_info.mem.nr_banks ) + early_printk("WARNING: some banks are not used\n"); + total_pages = ram_pages = ram_size >> PAGE_SHIFT; /* -- 1.7.10.4

Hi Linus, The following changes since commit 540ad6b62b3a188a53b51cac81d8a60d40e29fbd: Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb (2010-07-28 20:01:26 -0700) are available in the git repository at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git x86-mm-for-linus Andres Salomon (1): x86, mm: Create

The patch ''mem_event: use wait queue when ring is full'' I just sent out makes use of the waitqueue feature. There are two issues I get with the change applied: I think I got the logic right, and in my testing vcpu->pause_count drops to zero in p2m_mem_paging_resume(). But for some reason the vcpu does not make progress after the first wakeup. In my debugging there is one