Re: windows 2008 guest causing rcu_shed to emit NMI

[Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>]

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 10:45:02AM +0300, Andrey Korolyov wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 01:54:03PM +0300, Andrey Korolyov wrote:
> >> Thank you Marcelo,
> >>
> >> Host node locking up sometimes later than yesterday, bur problem still
> >> here, please see attached dmesg. Stuck process looks like
> >> root     19251  0.0  0.0 228476 12488 ?        D    14:42   0:00
> >> /usr/bin/kvm -no-user-config -device ? -device pci-assign,? -device
> >> virtio-blk-pci,? -device
> >>
> >> on fourth vm by count.
> >>
> >> Should I try upstream kernel instead of applying patch to the latest
> >> 3.4 or it is useless?
> >
> > If you can upgrade to an upstream kernel, please do that.
> >
> 
> With vanilla 3.7.4 there is almost no changes, and NMI started firing
> again. External symptoms looks like following: starting from some
> count, may be third or sixth vm, qemu-kvm process allocating its
> memory very slowly and by jumps, 20M-200M-700M-1.6G in minutes. Patch
> helps, of course - on both patched 3.4 and vanilla 3.7 I`m able to
> kill stuck kvm processes and node returned back to the normal, when on
> 3.2 sending SIGKILL to the process causing zombies and hanged ``ps''
> output (problem and workaround when no scheduler involved described
> here http://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg84799.html).

Try disabling pause loop exiting with ple_gap=0 kvm-intel.ko module parameter.