On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 04:17:23PM +0000, Alex Bennée wrote: > > Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org> writes: > > > Hi, > > > > TL;DR: > > > > - pc-bios/edk2-aarch64-code.fd should be rebuilt without debug > > Laszlo, > > Would it be possible to do a less debug enabled version of EDK2 on the > next update to pc-bios/edk2-*?
NB, Laszlo is no longer maintaining EDK2 in QEMU, it was handed over to Philippe. I'm CC'ing Gerd too since he's a reviewer and an EDK2 contributor taking over from Lazslo in EDK2 community > > > > > So my working theory is: > > > > - booting with EFI leaves a number stale code pages > > - as the kernel boots it clears these pages triggering lots of > > slow-path writes > > - result very slow boot > > > > I think the only real solution is to improve our TB invalidation code > > but perhaps another approach would be to detect a high TB invalidation > > churn and just tb_flush the whole thing and start again? > > > > Any thoughts or ideas? > > > -- > Alex Bennée > Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|
