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From: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
To: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>,
	Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, pbonzini@redhat.com
Subject: Re: nested KVM slower than QEMU with gnumach guest kernel
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 11:21:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141117092122.GF26187@minantech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141117091025.GS3110@type.youpi.perso.aquilenet.fr>

On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 10:10:25AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Jan Kiszka, le Mon 17 Nov 2014 10:04:37 +0100, a écrit :
> > On 2014-11-17 10:03, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > > Gleb Natapov, le Mon 17 Nov 2014 10:58:45 +0200, a écrit :
> > >> Do you know how gnumach timekeeping works? Does it have a timer that fires each 1ms?
> > >> Which clock device is it using?
> > > 
> > > It uses the PIT every 10ms, in square mode
> > > (PIT_C0|PIT_SQUAREMODE|PIT_READMODE = 0x36).
> > 
> > Wow... how retro. That feature might be unsupported - does user space
> > irqchip work better?
> 
> I had indeed tried giving -machine kernel_irqchip=off to the L2 kvm,
> with the same bad performance and external_interrupt in the trace.
> 
They are always be in the trace, but do you see them each ms or each 10ms
with user space irqchip?

--
			Gleb.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-17  9:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-11 18:55 nested KVM slower than QEMU with gnumach guest kernel Samuel Thibault
2014-11-11 23:42 ` Jan Kiszka
2014-11-16 22:18   ` Samuel Thibault
2014-11-17  6:28     ` Jan Kiszka
2014-11-17  8:50       ` Samuel Thibault
2014-11-24  0:42       ` Samuel Thibault
2014-12-15  0:09       ` Samuel Thibault
2014-12-15  9:41         ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-11-17  8:58     ` Gleb Natapov
2014-11-17  9:03       ` Samuel Thibault
2014-11-17  9:04         ` Jan Kiszka
2014-11-17  9:10           ` Samuel Thibault
2014-11-17  9:21             ` Gleb Natapov [this message]
2014-11-17  9:37               ` Samuel Thibault
2014-11-17  9:38               ` Samuel Thibault
2014-11-23 21:50           ` Samuel Thibault

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