Re: [ANNOUNCE] kvm-36 release

Avi Kivity
2007-08-23T11:01:56Z

Izik Eidus wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 11:12 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
>
>> Avi Kivity wrote:
>>
>>> Gunther Persoons wrote:
>>>
>>>> I noticed the idle cpu usage for kvm-36 running windows xp 32 bit as
>>>> guest is much higher.
>>>> For kvm-35 this was around 2-4%, running kvm-36 it's 22% - 26%.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Hmm. Is this using the ACPI HAL, or the Standard PC HAL, or what?
>>>
>>> The fix was targeted at ACPI MP HALs (reducing cpu usage from 100% to
>>> something sane).
>>>
>>>
>> Looks like a vga regression introduced by support for large memory.
>> Does the attached patch fix?
>>
>>
>
> avi, try this patch,
> the problem was that page_max is set to -1 inside the code,
> and when the code changed page0 and page1 to unsigned long, it never
> entered to there.
>

Thanks, applied. It isn't particularly pretty but I don't want to
change qemu code too much.

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