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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: ben@iagu.net, KVM list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: KVM lock contention on 48 core AMD machine
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 20:14:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D87958F.30104@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1300727545.2884.513.camel@edumazet-laptop>

On 03/21/2011 07:12 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Le lundi 21 mars 2011 à 19:02 +0200, Avi Kivity a écrit :
>
> >  Any ideas on how to fix it?  We could pre-allocate IDs and batch them in
> >  per-cpu caches, but it seems like a lot of work.
> >
>
> Hmm, I dont know what syscalls kvm do, but even a timer_gettime() has to
> lock this idr_lock.

It's qemu playing with posix timers, nothing to do with kvm per se.

> Sounds crazy, and should be fixed in kernel code, not kvm ;)
>

Oh yes, I couldn't fix it in kvm if I wanted to (and I don't want to).

-- 
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-03-21 18:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-18 12:02 KVM lock contention on 48 core AMD machine Ben Nagy
2011-03-18 12:30 ` Joerg Roedel
2011-03-19  4:45   ` Ben Nagy
2011-03-21  9:50     ` Avi Kivity
2011-03-21 11:43       ` Ben Nagy
2011-03-21 13:41         ` Ben Nagy
2011-03-21 13:53           ` Avi Kivity
     [not found]             ` <AANLkTikWQS281kTtJ32-qo5U+w_BAak7qUwVhUQgOxxv@mail.gmail.com>
2011-03-21 15:50               ` Avi Kivity
2011-03-21 16:16                 ` Ben Nagy
2011-03-21 16:33                   ` Avi Kivity
2011-03-21 16:54                   ` Eric Dumazet
2011-03-21 17:02                     ` Avi Kivity
2011-03-21 17:12                       ` Eric Dumazet
2011-03-21 18:12                         ` Ben Nagy
2011-03-21 22:27                           ` [RFC] posix-timers: RCU conversion Eric Dumazet
2011-03-22  7:09                             ` [PATCH] " Eric Dumazet
2011-03-22  8:59                               ` Ben Nagy
2011-03-22 10:35                                 ` Avi Kivity
2011-03-22 10:35                                   ` Avi Kivity
2011-04-04  3:30                                   ` Ben Nagy
2011-04-04  7:18                                     ` Avi Kivity
2011-04-04  7:18                                       ` Avi Kivity
2011-04-05  7:49                                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-04-05  8:16                                     ` Avi Kivity
2011-04-05  8:16                                       ` Avi Kivity
2011-04-05  8:48                                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-04-05  8:56                                     ` Avi Kivity
2011-04-05  8:56                                       ` Avi Kivity
2011-04-05  9:03                                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-04-05  9:08                                         ` Avi Kivity
2011-04-05  9:08                                           ` Avi Kivity
2011-04-05  9:50                                         ` Ben Nagy
2011-04-05  8:56                                     ` Mike Galbraith
2011-04-03 16:54                               ` Eric Dumazet
2011-04-04 18:08                                 ` john stultz
2011-04-04 19:47                                   ` Eric Dumazet
2011-04-05 14:48                                   ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-04-05 15:18                                     ` [PATCH v2] " Eric Dumazet
2011-04-05 15:43                                       ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-05-16 15:10                                       ` Avi Kivity
2011-05-16 15:30                                         ` Eric Dumazet
2011-04-08 18:28                                 ` [PATCH] " Paul E. McKenney
2011-03-21 18:14                         ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2011-03-21 18:48                         ` KVM lock contention on 48 core AMD machine Michael Tokarev
2011-03-21 18:53                           ` Avi Kivity
2011-03-18 12:44 ` Stefan Hajnoczi

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