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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 untested] kvm: better MWAIT emulation for guests
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 05:22:20 +0200
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Cc: Radim =?utf-8?B?S3LEjW3DocWZ?= <rkrcmar@redhat.com>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
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To: "Gabriel L. Somlo" <gsomlo@gmail.com>
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On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 09:23:56AM -0400, Gabriel L. Somlo wrote:
> OK, now on to Radim's test, on the MacPro1,1:
> 
> [kvm-unit-tests]$ time TIMEOUT=20 ./x86-run x86/mwait.flat -append '240 1 1'
> timeout -k 1s --foreground 20 qemu-kvm -nodefaults -enable-kvm -device pc-testdev -device isa-debug-exit,iobase=0xf4,iosize=0x4 -vnc none -serial stdio -device pci-testdev -kernel x86/mwait.flat -append 240 1 1
> enabling apic
> PASS: resumed from mwait 10000 times
> SUMMARY: 1 tests
> 
> real    0m0.746s
> user    0m0.542s
> sys     0m0.215s
> [kvm-unit-tests]$ time TIMEOUT=20 ./x86-run x86/mwait.flat -append '240 1 0'
> timeout -k 1s --foreground 20 qemu-kvm -nodefaults -enable-kvm -device pc-testdev -device isa-debug-exit,iobase=0xf4,iosize=0x4 -vnc none -serial stdio -device pci-testdev -kernel x86/mwait.flat -append 240 1 0
> enabling apic
> PASS: resumed from mwait 10000 times
> SUMMARY: 1 tests
> 
> real    0m0.743s
> user    0m0.528s
> sys     0m0.226s
> [kvm-unit-tests]$ time TIMEOUT=20 ./x86-run x86/mwait.flat -append '240 1 1' -smp 2
> timeout -k 1s --foreground 20 qemu-kvm -nodefaults -enable-kvm -device pc-testdev -device isa-debug-exit,iobase=0xf4,iosize=0x4 -vnc none -serial stdio -device pci-testdev -kernel x86/mwait.flat -append 240 1 1 -smp 2
> enabling apic
> enabling apic
> FAIL: resumed from mwait 10150 times
> SUMMARY: 1 tests, 1 unexpected failures
> 
> real    0m0.745s
> user    0m0.545s
> sys     0m0.214s
> [kvm-unit-tests]$ time TIMEOUT=20 ./x86-run x86/mwait.flat -append '240 1 0' -smp 2
> timeout -k 1s --foreground 20 qemu-kvm -nodefaults -enable-kvm -device pc-testdev -device isa-debug-exit,iobase=0xf4,iosize=0x4 -vnc none -serial stdio -device pci-testdev -kernel x86/mwait.flat -append 240 1 0 -smp 2
> enabling apic
> enabling apic
> FAIL: resumed from mwait 10116 times
> SUMMARY: 1 tests, 1 unexpected failures
> 
> real    0m0.744s
> user    0m0.541s
> sys     0m0.217s
> 
> HTH,
> --Gabriel

Weird. How can it go above 10000? Radim - any idea?

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