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From: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Why so many vm exits caused by ept violation
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 11:27:27 +0200
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On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 05:04:15PM +0800, lidong chen wrote:
> how to configure virtio to use MSI? I didn't found out it.
> thanks.
>=20
It looks like it should be enabled by default. What is you guest?

> 2010/11/9 Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>:
> > On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 03:37:44PM +0800, lidong chen wrote:
> >> sorry,i take mistake,
> >>
> >> the ept violation is not caused by 2M hugepages, but caused by e10=
00
> >> emulated by qemu.
> >> I test uesd 2M hugepages and virio, the performance is better than
> >> e1000. but is still worse than xen. I will continue to find out ot=
her
> >> reason.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> so, there are two question:
> >> 1.why have so many ept violation when used e1000?
> >>
> >>
> >> 2.when used virtio, there ara also such error happen.is this norma=
l?
> >> I add the printk in function tdp_page_fault below.
> >> =9A =9A =9A =9A pfn =3D gfn_to_pfn(vcpu->kvm, gfn);
> >> =9A =9A =9A =9A if (is_error_pfn(pfn)) {
> >> =9A =9A =9A =9A =9A =9A =9A =9A kvm_release_pfn_clean(pfn);
> >> =9A =9A =9A =9A =9A =9A =9A =9A if( printk_ratelimit() ) {
> >> =9A =9A =9A =9A =9A =9A =9A =9A =9A =9A =9A =9A printk(KERN_EMERG =
"error gpa is %ld\n", gpa);
> >> =9A =9A =9A =9A =9A =9A =9A =9A }
> >> =9A =9A =9A =9A =9A =9A =9A =9A return is_fault_pfn(pfn) ? -EFAULT=
 : 1;
> >> =9A =9A =9A =9A }
> >>
> >> and result is:
> >> [root@rhel6-kvm1 ~]# dmesg -c
> >> __ratelimit: 387 callbacks suppressed
> >> error gpa is 4273995776
> >> error gpa is 4273995776
> >> error gpa is 4273995776
> >> error gpa is 4273995776
> >> error gpa is 4273995776
> >>
> > You should really print this in hex :) This is 0xfec00000 AKA
> > IOAPIC. Try to configure virtio to use MSI.
> >
> > --
> > =9A =9A =9A =9A =9A =9A =9A =9A =9A =9A =9A =9AGleb.
> >

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			Gleb.