Re: vmx status report against cset 14912 - 1 fixed issue, 4 old issues

[Keir Fraser <keir@xensource.com>]

On 25/4/07 10:27, "Zhao, Yunfeng" <yunfeng.zhao@intel.com> wrote:

>> To be clear: this is an unmodified RHEL4 release kernel, with *latest*
> PV
>> drivers from -unstable? Any idea if this issue is specific to the RHEL4
>> kernel, or can you reproduce with other kernels? Does it very
> definitely
>> seem to be specific to multiprocessor guests?
> [Yunfeng] The guest was booted with a 2.16.16 smp kernel which we built
> for PV test. It only happens on SMP HVM linux guest.I also saw the same
> issue on some SLES SMP HVM guests with SLES release kernel and PV
> drivers.

It would be interesting to see what happens if the platform-pci interrupt is
pinned strictly to vcpu0. So, what happens if you boot the guest with
'acpi=0'? Or, what about if you kill any irqbalance programs that are
running after boot, then 'cat /proc/interrupts' to find the xen-platform-pci
interrupt number (x) and then 'echo 1 >/proc/irq/<x>/smp_affinity'?

I couldn't repro just with SpecJBB but it's quite possible the kernel build
is really required to repro. Specjbb itself does very little I/O.

 -- Keir