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From: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Houston, we have May 15, 1953 (says guest when host uses cpufreq, and dies)
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:11:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <499C3327.3090207@wpkg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <499C3131.3030601@codemonkey.ws>

Anthony Liguori schrieb:
> Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
>> Is using cpufreq (i.e. with ondemand governor) on KVM host safe for 
>> guests?
>>
>> I enabled cpufreq on the host, it scaled down the host CPU (Dual-Core 
>> AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2212) to 1 GHz from 2 GHz.
> 
> Not with your processor.  Intel processors should be fine and any AMD 
> processor that's Barcelona/Phenom or newer.

Looks I'm a bad, bad, anti-environment CO2 contributor then.

 From a technical perspective, what are the problems with my CPU that it 
scales down on the host just fine, but makes the guests "return to the 
past"?


-- 
Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org

  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-18 16:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-18 14:51 Houston, we have May 15, 1953 (says guest when host uses cpufreq, and dies) Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-02-18 16:02 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-02-18 16:11   ` Tomasz Chmielewski [this message]
2009-02-18 16:59     ` Avi Kivity
2009-02-18 17:02       ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-02-18 20:37       ` Anthony Liguori
2009-02-19  9:15         ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-02-19  9:20           ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-02-19 10:27             ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-02-18 18:46 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2009-02-18 18:53   ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-02-18 18:57     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2009-02-18 19:07       ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-02-18 19:10         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2009-02-18 19:18           ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-02-18 19:32             ` Marcelo Tosatti
2009-02-18 20:02               ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-02-18 20:03                 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2009-02-19 14:43                   ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-03-07 14:59       ` Tomasz Chmielewski

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