> I tried to find information on this myself, but unfortunately I
didn''t
> get very far.
> How important is the size of the CPU''s L2 cache in regard to the
> performance of guest OS''s under Xen?
That''s a good question!
Obviously, having a better L2 cache size always ought to make things go
faster. In addition, for the same workload under Xen as native Linux, the
Xen system has more code (apps + linux + xen) so it ought to have a larger
cache footprint. As a result, I guess I''d expect the extra cache to
benefit
Xen. But I couldn''t say how much, or to what extent it will affect
your
particular workload.
The best way would be to test both, I guess, but I suppose you probably
can''t
do this. I expect you''ll find Xen runs OK on either system in terms of
performance. And since it''s a laptop, I''m guessing that top
performance
isn''t so critical as if you were running a server or something.
Your main problem is likely to be that Xen doesn''t support laptop
hardware /
CPU frequency scaling / other power management as well as native Linux.
Cheers,
mark
> The reason I''m asking is that I have to choose between two
notebooks,
> one with a smaller size and prize, but only 2MB L2 cache, and the
> other one with 4MB L2 cache.
> Does the size of the L2 cache has any significant impact on Xen
> performance?
>
> Many thanks for all opinions!
>
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