From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Aleksander Alekseev <afiskon@devzen.ru>,
KVM devel mailing list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: User question: does KVM work better with latest Linux kernel?
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 14:32:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56EAB204.1040102@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160317131014.7dc42d4f@fujitsu>
On 17/03/2016 11:10, Aleksander Alekseev wrote:
> Hello
>
> I'm currently using Linux kernel 3.13.0 (Ubuntu Linux 14.04 with
> latest updates). KVM works in general but I noticed a number of small
> bugs. E.g. after suspending/resuming a system time is different on host
> and guest systems (FreeBSD 10.2). Also when guest system consumes 100%
> of its CPU, htop on host system shows that utilization is 100%, but in
> guest system it shows only about 33%. Etc.
>
> Is it worth trying to upgrade Linux kernel to say 4.5? Does an upgrade
> usually solve some problems with KVM or more likely I will just waste my
> time? So basically I'm asking what is considered rule of thumb here.
None of the bugs sound like something that would be fixed (in fact they
might even be FreeBSD bugs). However, upgrading to a recent kernel is
generally a good thing to do before reporting a bug.
Paolo
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2016-03-17 10:10 User question: does KVM work better with latest Linux kernel? Aleksander Alekseev
2016-03-17 13:32 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
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