Re: [kvm-ppc-devel] virtio-net working on PowerPC KVM

Alexander Graf
2008-03-31T08:17:33Z

On Mar 31, 2008, at 9:43 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:

> Alexander Graf wrote:
>>
>> I am experiencing 7-8ms ping latencies (native 0.1ms) on x86_64 as
>> well, when pinging the virtual machine. Maybe it's not related to
>> PowerPC? Is it supposed to be that slow?
>
> If you have a really old host kernel, or a misconfigured one, it can
> happen. What's your host kernel? are you using hrtimers?

This is a 2.6.22 SUSE kernel. As far as I can see
CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS is not set.

Guess it's my fault then - nevertheless a warning when starting kvm
would be nice.

Alex