* [xen-unstable test] 12876: tolerable FAIL - PUSHED
@ 2012-05-15 7:12 xen.org
2012-05-15 9:27 ` Ian Campbell
0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: xen.org @ 2012-05-15 7:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: xen-devel; +Cc: ian.jackson
flight 12876 xen-unstable real [real]
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~xensrcts/logs/12876/
Failures :-/ but no regressions.
Tests which are failing intermittently (not blocking):
test-amd64-amd64-xl-sedf-pin 14 guest-localmigrate/x10 fail pass in 12860
test-amd64-i386-win 7 windows-install fail pass in 12860
test-i386-i386-xl-win 7 windows-install fail pass in 12860
test-amd64-i386-qemuu-rhel6hvm-amd 7 redhat-install fail in 12860 pass in 12876
Regressions which are regarded as allowable (not blocking):
test-amd64-i386-qemuu-rhel6hvm-amd 9 guest-start.2 fail like 12858
test-amd64-amd64-xl-qemuu-win7-amd64 11 guest-localmigrate.2 fail in 12860 like 12858
Tests which did not succeed, but are not blocking:
test-amd64-amd64-xl-pcipt-intel 9 guest-start fail never pass
test-amd64-i386-rhel6hvm-intel 11 leak-check/check fail never pass
test-amd64-i386-qemuu-rhel6hvm-intel 9 guest-start.2 fail never pass
test-i386-i386-xl-qemuu-winxpsp3 13 guest-stop fail never pass
test-amd64-amd64-win 16 leak-check/check fail never pass
test-amd64-i386-xend-winxpsp3 16 leak-check/check fail never pass
test-amd64-i386-win-vcpus1 16 leak-check/check fail never pass
test-amd64-i386-rhel6hvm-amd 11 leak-check/check fail never pass
test-i386-i386-xl-winxpsp3 13 guest-stop fail never pass
test-amd64-amd64-xl-win7-amd64 13 guest-stop fail never pass
test-amd64-amd64-xl-winxpsp3 13 guest-stop fail never pass
test-amd64-i386-xl-win7-amd64 13 guest-stop fail never pass
test-amd64-amd64-xl-qemuu-winxpsp3 13 guest-stop fail never pass
test-amd64-i386-xl-winxpsp3-vcpus1 13 guest-stop fail never pass
test-amd64-amd64-xl-qemuu-win7-amd64 13 guest-stop fail never pass
test-amd64-i386-xl-win-vcpus1 13 guest-stop fail never pass
test-amd64-amd64-xl-win 13 guest-stop fail never pass
test-i386-i386-win 16 leak-check/check fail never pass
test-amd64-i386-win 16 leak-check/check fail in 12860 never pass
test-i386-i386-xl-win 13 guest-stop fail in 12860 never pass
version targeted for testing:
xen f8279258e3c9
baseline version:
xen cd4dd23a831d
jobs:
build-amd64 pass
build-i386 pass
build-amd64-oldkern pass
build-i386-oldkern pass
build-amd64-pvops pass
build-i386-pvops pass
test-amd64-amd64-xl pass
test-amd64-i386-xl pass
test-i386-i386-xl pass
test-amd64-i386-rhel6hvm-amd fail
test-amd64-i386-qemuu-rhel6hvm-amd fail
test-amd64-amd64-xl-qemuu-win7-amd64 fail
test-amd64-amd64-xl-win7-amd64 fail
test-amd64-i386-xl-win7-amd64 fail
test-amd64-i386-xl-credit2 pass
test-amd64-amd64-xl-pcipt-intel fail
test-amd64-i386-rhel6hvm-intel fail
test-amd64-i386-qemuu-rhel6hvm-intel fail
test-amd64-i386-xl-multivcpu pass
test-amd64-amd64-pair pass
test-amd64-i386-pair pass
test-i386-i386-pair pass
test-amd64-amd64-xl-sedf-pin fail
test-amd64-amd64-pv pass
test-amd64-i386-pv pass
test-i386-i386-pv pass
test-amd64-amd64-xl-sedf pass
test-amd64-i386-win-vcpus1 fail
test-amd64-i386-xl-win-vcpus1 fail
test-amd64-i386-xl-winxpsp3-vcpus1 fail
test-amd64-amd64-win fail
test-amd64-i386-win fail
test-i386-i386-win fail
test-amd64-amd64-xl-win fail
test-i386-i386-xl-win fail
test-amd64-amd64-xl-qemuu-winxpsp3 fail
test-i386-i386-xl-qemuu-winxpsp3 fail
test-amd64-i386-xend-winxpsp3 fail
test-amd64-amd64-xl-winxpsp3 fail
test-i386-i386-xl-winxpsp3 fail
------------------------------------------------------------
sg-report-flight on woking.cam.xci-test.com
logs: /home/xc_osstest/logs
images: /home/xc_osstest/images
Logs, config files, etc. are available at
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~xensrcts/logs
Test harness code can be found at
http://xenbits.xensource.com/gitweb?p=osstest.git;a=summary
Pushing revision :
+ branch=xen-unstable
+ revision=f8279258e3c9
+ . cri-lock-repos
++ . cri-common
+++ umask 002
+++ getconfig Repos
+++ perl -e '
use Osstest;
readconfigonly();
print $c{Repos} or die $!;
'
++ repos=/export/home/osstest/repos
++ repos_lock=/export/home/osstest/repos/lock
++ '[' x '!=' x/export/home/osstest/repos/lock ']'
++ OSSTEST_REPOS_LOCK_LOCKED=/export/home/osstest/repos/lock
++ exec with-lock-ex -w /export/home/osstest/repos/lock ./ap-push xen-unstable f8279258e3c9
+ branch=xen-unstable
+ revision=f8279258e3c9
+ . cri-lock-repos
++ . cri-common
+++ umask 002
+++ getconfig Repos
+++ perl -e '
use Osstest;
readconfigonly();
print $c{Repos} or die $!;
'
++ repos=/export/home/osstest/repos
++ repos_lock=/export/home/osstest/repos/lock
++ '[' x/export/home/osstest/repos/lock '!=' x/export/home/osstest/repos/lock ']'
+ . cri-common
++ umask 002
+ select_xenbranch
+ case "$branch" in
+ tree=xen
+ xenbranch=xen-unstable
+ '[' xxen = xlinux ']'
+ linuxbranch=linux
+ : master
+ : tested/2.6.39.x
+ . ap-common
++ : xen@xenbits.xensource.com
++ : http://xenbits.xen.org/staging/xen-unstable.hg
++ : git://xenbits.xen.org/staging/qemu-xen-unstable.git
++ : git://git.kernel.org
++ : git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git
++ : git
++ : git://xenbits.xen.org/linux-pvops.git
++ : master
++ : xen@xenbits.xensource.com:git/linux-pvops.git
++ : git://xenbits.xen.org/linux-pvops.git
++ : master
++ : git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen.git
++ : tested/2.6.39.x
++ : daily-cron.xen-unstable
++ : http://hg.uk.xensource.com/carbon/trunk/linux-2.6.27
++ : git://xenbits.xen.org/staging/qemu-upstream-unstable.git
++ : daily-cron.xen-unstable
+ TREE_LINUX=xen@xenbits.xensource.com:git/linux-pvops.git
+ TREE_QEMU_UPSTREAM=xen@xenbits.xensource.com:git/qemu-upstream-unstable.git
+ info_linux_tree xen-unstable
+ case $1 in
+ return 1
+ case "$branch" in
+ cd /export/home/osstest/repos/xen-unstable.hg
+ hg push -r f8279258e3c9 ssh://xen@xenbits.xensource.com/HG/xen-unstable.hg
pushing to ssh://xen@xenbits.xensource.com/HG/xen-unstable.hg
searching for changes
remote: adding changesets
remote: adding manifests
remote: adding file changes
remote: added 8 changesets with 53 changes to 53 files
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* Re: [xen-unstable test] 12876: tolerable FAIL - PUSHED
2012-05-15 7:12 [xen-unstable test] 12876: tolerable FAIL - PUSHED xen.org
@ 2012-05-15 9:27 ` Ian Campbell
2012-05-15 9:50 ` Jan Beulich
0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Ian Campbell @ 2012-05-15 9:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: xen.org; +Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 08:12 +0100, xen.org wrote:
> flight 12876 xen-unstable real [real]
> http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~xensrcts/logs/12876/
>
> Failures :-/ but no regressions.
>
> Tests which are failing intermittently (not blocking):
(re-ordered to get the short ones over with first)
> test-amd64-amd64-xl-sedf-pin 14 guest-localmigrate/x10 fail pass in 12860
Known intermittent bug in non-default scheduler. Don't care for 4.2.
> test-amd64-i386-qemuu-rhel6hvm-amd 7 redhat-install fail in 12860 pass in 12876
qemuu is still a bit flakey. It's not the default qemu for 4.2 but would
still be nice to investigate.
> test-i386-i386-xl-win 7 windows-install fail pass in 12860
The test harness seems to die ~11 mins after starting the guest. The
timeout was 7000 seconds which is 100+ mins.
2012-05-15 03:22:39 Z executing ssh ... root@10.80.249.56 xl create /etc/xen/win.guest.osstest.cfg
WARNING: ignoring "kernel" directive for HVM guest. Use "firmware_override" instead if you really want a non-default firmware
xc: info: VIRTUAL MEMORY ARRANGEMENT:
Loader: 0000000000100000->000000000019bca4
TOTAL: 0000000000000000->000000001f800000
ENTRY ADDRESS: 0000000000100000
xc: info: PHYSICAL MEMORY ALLOCATION:
4KB PAGES: 0x0000000000000200
2MB PAGES: 0x00000000000000fb
1GB PAGES: 0x0000000000000000
libxl: error: libxl.c:3162:libxl_sched_credit_domain_set: Cpu weight out of range, valid values are within range from 1 to 65535
Parsing config file /etc/xen/win.guest.osstest.cfg
Daemon running with PID 2548
2012-05-15 03:22:40 Z guest win.guest.osstest 5a:36:0e:4c:00:1d 8936 link/ip/tcp: waiting 7000s...
2012-05-15 03:22:40 Z guest win.guest.osstest 5a:36:0e:4c:00:1d 8936 link/ip/tcp: no active lease (waiting) ...
Died at Osstest.pm line 1833, <GEN1332> line 2553.
...
+ rc=255
+ date -u '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S Z exit status 255'
2012-05-15 03:33:45 Z exit status 255
The screenshot shows that the guest was in the middle of an XP boot.
Hopefully a harness problem but otherwise needs looking at for 4.2?
> test-amd64-i386-win 7 windows-install fail pass in 12860
This timed out after ~2 hours. The screenshot shows that the Windows
installer was still at the blue and yellow text mode stage, and a fairly
early looking one at that. It seems rather like the guest has hung, or
at least stalled.
Needs investigation for 4.2?
Towards the end of the host serial log is a stack trace which suggests
that we were at least in the guest context.
May 15 01:56:45.470932 (XEN) *** Dumping CPU1 host state: ***
May 15 01:56:45.470966 (XEN) ----[ Xen-4.2-unstable x86_64 debug=y Not tainted ]----
May 15 01:56:45.478913 (XEN) CPU: 1
May 15 01:56:45.478937 (XEN) RIP: e008:[<ffff82c4801cd933>] vmx_vmcs_enter+0xc5/0xc6
May 15 01:56:45.478977 (XEN) RFLAGS: 0000000000000246 CONTEXT: hypervisor
May 15 01:56:45.490925 (XEN) rax: ffff8301281bff18 rbx: ffff8300cfd19000 rcx: 0000000000010093
May 15 01:56:45.498909 (XEN) rdx: 0000000000000093 rsi: 0000000000000000 rdi: ffff8300cfd19000
May 15 01:56:45.498947 (XEN) rbp: ffff8301281bf5f8 rsp: ffff8301281bf5b0 r8: ffff82f602289d68
May 15 01:56:45.510917 (XEN) r9: 0000000000000000 r10: 0000000000000000 r11: 0000000000000000
May 15 01:56:45.518908 (XEN) r12: 0000000000000005 r13: 000000000000ffff r14: 0000000000000000
May 15 01:56:45.518945 (XEN) r15: 0000000000000000 cr0: 0000000080050033 cr4: 00000000000426f0
May 15 01:56:45.530913 (XEN) cr3: 000000010ce45000 cr2: 0000000000000000
May 15 01:56:45.530947 (XEN) ds: 0000 es: 0000 fs: 0000 gs: 0000 ss: 0000 cs: e008
May 15 01:56:45.538921 (XEN) Xen stack trace from rsp=ffff8301281bf5b0:
May 15 01:56:45.538954 (XEN) ffff82c4801d0405 ffff8301281bf688 00000093cfd19000 ffff8301281bf5f8
May 15 01:56:45.550915 (XEN) ffff8300cfd19000 0000000000000005 0000000000000005 0000000080010021
May 15 01:56:45.558914 (XEN) ffff8301281bf628 ffff8301281bf6d8 ffff82c4801d227c 00000000000244e2
May 15 01:56:45.566906 (XEN) 0000000000000024 ffff8301281bf688 00000000801e0cc8 0000ffff009b2000
May 15 01:56:45.566945 (XEN) 0000000000020000 0000ffff009322f3 0000000000022f30 0000ffff009322f3
May 15 01:56:45.578924 (XEN) 0000000000022f30 0000ffff00930000 0000000000000000 0000ffff00930030
May 15 01:56:45.586968 (XEN) 0000000000000300 0000ffff00930000 0000000000000000 00000077008b0028
May 15 01:56:45.587027 (XEN) 0000000000024460 ffff8301281bf708 ffff8301281bf700 ffff8301281bfdd8
May 15 01:56:45.598935 (XEN) 0000000080000011 ffff8300cfd19000 0000000000000010 00000000001144eb
May 15 01:56:45.607211 (XEN) 0000000000000039 ffff8301281bf738 ffff82c4801b0b76 ffff830100000001
May 15 01:56:45.607248 (XEN) ffff8300cfd19000 ffff8301281bf728 0000000000000007 ffff8301281bfdd8
May 15 01:56:45.618930 (XEN) 0000000000000000 0000000080000011 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
May 15 01:56:45.626921 (XEN) ffff82c480265500 ffff8301281bf778 ffff82c4801ab15a ffff8301281bf778
May 15 01:56:45.626960 (XEN) ffff8301281bfdd8 ffff8301281bf778 ffff82c480189e69 ffff8301281bfdd8
May 15 01:56:45.638934 (XEN) 0000000000000022 ffff8301281bfcd8 ffff82c480198204 0000000100000008
May 15 01:56:45.646931 (XEN) 0000000000000000 01ff82f6025a14c0 0000000000000000 ffff8301281bff00
May 15 01:56:45.646969 (XEN) ffff8301281bff18 ffff8301281bf800 ffff82c4801a5182 01ff8300cfe6b000
May 15 01:56:45.658921 (XEN) 0000000800000000 ffff8301281bffc0 000000008016fec4 0000000100000008
May 15 01:56:45.666915 (XEN) 0001000000000000 0100000000000000 0000000000000002 ffff8301281b0000
May 15 01:56:45.666951 (XEN) 0000000000000001 0000000000000048 00000000001144d5 0000000000000002
May 15 01:56:45.678914 (XEN) Xen call trace:
May 15 01:56:45.678940 (XEN) [<ffff82c4801cd933>] vmx_vmcs_enter+0xc5/0xc6
May 15 01:56:45.686917 (XEN) [<ffff82c4801d227c>] vmx_update_guest_cr+0x252/0x663
May 15 01:56:45.686954 (XEN) [<ffff82c4801b0b76>] hvm_set_cr0+0x562/0x5e8
May 15 01:56:45.698910 (XEN) [<ffff82c4801ab15a>] hvmemul_write_cr+0x91/0xd4
May 15 01:56:45.698945 (XEN) [<ffff82c480198204>] x86_emulate+0xdba9/0xfc89
May 15 01:56:45.706917 (XEN) [<ffff82c4801aad74>] hvm_emulate_one+0x120/0x1af
May 15 01:56:45.706953 (XEN) [<ffff82c4801cc796>] realmode_emulate_one+0x3b/0x21a
May 15 01:56:45.718907 (XEN) [<ffff82c4801cca75>] vmx_realmode+0x100/0x25b
May 15 01:56:45.718942 (XEN)
May 15 01:56:45.718968 (XEN) *** Dumping CPU1 guest state (d1:v0): ***
May 15 01:56:45.726921 (XEN) ----[ Xen-4.2-unstable x86_64 debug=y Not tainted ]----
May 15 01:56:45.726959 (XEN) CPU: 1
May 15 01:56:45.738920 (XEN) RIP: 2000:[<0000000000000252>]
May 15 01:56:45.738950 (XEN) RFLAGS: 0000000000010086 CONTEXT: hvm guest
May 15 01:56:45.738987 (XEN) rax: 0000000080000011 rbx: 0000000000067ff2 rcx: 00000000000000b6
May 15 01:56:45.746923 (XEN) rdx: 0000000000000001 rsi: 0000000000011d68 rdi: 0000000006000000
May 15 01:56:45.758908 (XEN) rbp: 0000000000060b88 rsp: 0000000000067ff2 r8: 0000000000000000
May 15 01:56:45.758945 (XEN) r9: 0000000000000000 r10: 0000000000000000 r11: 0000000000000000
May 15 01:56:45.766919 (XEN) r12: 0000000000000000 r13: 0000000000000000 r14: 0000000000000000
May 15 01:56:45.778914 (XEN) r15: 0000000000000000 cr0: 0000000080000011 cr4: 0000000000000000
May 15 01:56:45.778951 (XEN) cr3: 0000000000039000 cr2: 0000000000000000
May 15 01:56:45.786916 (XEN) ds: 0060 es: 0000 fs: 0030 gs: 0000 ss: 22f3 cs: 2000
May 15 01:56:45.786952 (XEN)
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* Re: [xen-unstable test] 12876: tolerable FAIL - PUSHED
2012-05-15 9:27 ` Ian Campbell
@ 2012-05-15 9:50 ` Jan Beulich
2012-05-15 10:05 ` Ian Campbell
0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Jan Beulich @ 2012-05-15 9:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ian Campbell, xen.org; +Cc: Olaf Hering, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
>>> On 15.05.12 at 11:27, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 08:12 +0100, xen.org wrote:
>> test-amd64-i386-qemuu-rhel6hvm-amd 7 redhat-install fail in 12860 pass in 12876
>
> qemuu is still a bit flakey. It's not the default qemu for 4.2 but would
> still be nice to investigate.
Isn't it being made the default at least for pv guests? After having fixed
the gntdev driver in our kernels and the pvops-centric shortcomings in
both qemu-s, the qdisk backend still looks somewhat unreliable in
testing that Olaf has performed. We haven't narrowed it so far, but
a resulting question of course is whether using that backend (and/or
qemu-upstream) by default for any guests is a good idea.
Jan
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* Re: [xen-unstable test] 12876: tolerable FAIL - PUSHED
2012-05-15 9:50 ` Jan Beulich
@ 2012-05-15 10:05 ` Ian Campbell
2012-05-15 10:27 ` Stefano Stabellini
0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Ian Campbell @ 2012-05-15 10:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jan Beulich
Cc: Stefano Stabellini, Olaf Hering, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com,
Ian Jackson
On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 10:50 +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 15.05.12 at 11:27, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 08:12 +0100, xen.org wrote:
> >> test-amd64-i386-qemuu-rhel6hvm-amd 7 redhat-install fail in 12860 pass in 12876
> >
> > qemuu is still a bit flakey. It's not the default qemu for 4.2 but would
> > still be nice to investigate.
>
> Isn't it being made the default at least for pv guests?
Right, yes. I should have made it clear I was talking about HVM here.
> After having fixed
> the gntdev driver in our kernels and the pvops-centric shortcomings in
> both qemu-s, the qdisk backend still looks somewhat unreliable in
> testing that Olaf has performed. We haven't narrowed it so far, but
> a resulting question of course is whether using that backend (and/or
> qemu-upstream) by default for any guests is a good idea.
CCing Stefano who made the patch to have PV guests use this guy. Please
do share details when you have them.
Ian.
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* Re: [xen-unstable test] 12876: tolerable FAIL - PUSHED
2012-05-15 10:05 ` Ian Campbell
@ 2012-05-15 10:27 ` Stefano Stabellini
2012-05-15 11:19 ` Jan Beulich
0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Stefano Stabellini @ 2012-05-15 10:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ian Campbell
Cc: Olaf Hering, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Ian Jackson,
Jan Beulich, Stefano Stabellini
On Tue, 15 May 2012, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > After having fixed
> > the gntdev driver in our kernels and the pvops-centric shortcomings in
> > both qemu-s, the qdisk backend still looks somewhat unreliable in
> > testing that Olaf has performed. We haven't narrowed it so far, but
> > a resulting question of course is whether using that backend (and/or
> > qemu-upstream) by default for any guests is a good idea.
>
> CCing Stefano who made the patch to have PV guests use this guy. Please
> do share details when you have them.
I would prefer precise bug reports, and possibly patches, to "somewhat
unreliable" :-)
Please note that the userspace disk backend is basically the same in
upstream QEMU and qemu-xen-traditional, so switching back to the old
QEMU for pv guests wouldn't improve anything.
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
* Re: [xen-unstable test] 12876: tolerable FAIL - PUSHED
2012-05-15 10:27 ` Stefano Stabellini
@ 2012-05-15 11:19 ` Jan Beulich
2012-05-15 11:25 ` Stefano Stabellini
0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Jan Beulich @ 2012-05-15 11:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ian Campbell, Stefano Stabellini
Cc: Olaf Hering, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Ian Jackson
>>> On 15.05.12 at 12:27, Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
wrote:
> On Tue, 15 May 2012, Ian Campbell wrote:
>> > After having fixed
>> > the gntdev driver in our kernels and the pvops-centric shortcomings in
>> > both qemu-s, the qdisk backend still looks somewhat unreliable in
>> > testing that Olaf has performed. We haven't narrowed it so far, but
>> > a resulting question of course is whether using that backend (and/or
>> > qemu-upstream) by default for any guests is a good idea.
>>
>> CCing Stefano who made the patch to have PV guests use this guy. Please
>> do share details when you have them.
>
> I would prefer precise bug reports, and possibly patches, to "somewhat
> unreliable" :-)
Of course. But we barely got past all the basic issues...
> Please note that the userspace disk backend is basically the same in
> upstream QEMU and qemu-xen-traditional,
I understand that, ...
> so switching back to the old
> QEMU for pv guests wouldn't improve anything.
... and I didn't mean to suggest that. I was rather trying to hint
towards continuing to use blkback as default backend.
Jan
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* Re: [xen-unstable test] 12876: tolerable FAIL - PUSHED
2012-05-15 11:19 ` Jan Beulich
@ 2012-05-15 11:25 ` Stefano Stabellini
0 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Stefano Stabellini @ 2012-05-15 11:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jan Beulich
Cc: Olaf Hering, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Ian Jackson,
Ian Campbell, Stefano Stabellini
On Tue, 15 May 2012, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 15.05.12 at 12:27, Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
> wrote:
> > On Tue, 15 May 2012, Ian Campbell wrote:
> >> > After having fixed
> >> > the gntdev driver in our kernels and the pvops-centric shortcomings in
> >> > both qemu-s, the qdisk backend still looks somewhat unreliable in
> >> > testing that Olaf has performed. We haven't narrowed it so far, but
> >> > a resulting question of course is whether using that backend (and/or
> >> > qemu-upstream) by default for any guests is a good idea.
> >>
> >> CCing Stefano who made the patch to have PV guests use this guy. Please
> >> do share details when you have them.
> >
> > I would prefer precise bug reports, and possibly patches, to "somewhat
> > unreliable" :-)
>
> Of course. But we barely got past all the basic issues...
>
> > Please note that the userspace disk backend is basically the same in
> > upstream QEMU and qemu-xen-traditional,
>
> I understand that, ...
>
> > so switching back to the old
> > QEMU for pv guests wouldn't improve anything.
>
> ... and I didn't mean to suggest that. I was rather trying to hint
> towards continuing to use blkback as default backend.
blkback is still the default backend for physical partitions and LVM
volumes, but without direct_IO support in loop.c is unsafe for files.
I wouldn't want to run my VM on a disk that is basically stored in RAM.
Also we don't really have choice when it comes to QCOW and QCOW2 images.
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