Re: [ANNOUNCE] kvm-36 release

Gunther Persoons
2007-08-23T09:02:22Z

2007/8/23, Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>:
> 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?
>
>
>
> --
> error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
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>

Yup, the patched fixed it. Cpu usage is now around 4%.