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| author | Michael Brown | 2014-04-28 21:20:44 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Brown | 2014-04-29 19:24:10 +0200 |
| commit | e4593909a8a21c4a9d5766bf6a0770bcf6ee6911 (patch) | |
| tree | 4831a67764ab2ea8e9aa5210b3c9c0d3bd7e7f3a /src/tests | |
| parent | [comboot] Use built-in interrupt reflector (diff) | |
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[pcbios] Do not switch to real mode to check for timer interrupt
The currticks() function is called at least once per TCP packet, and
so is performance-critical. Switching to real mode just to allow the
timer interrupt to fire is expensive when running inside a virtual
machine, and imposes a significant performance cost.
Fix by enabling interrupts without switching to real mode. This
results in an approximately 100% increase in download speed when
running under KVM.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
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