From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Farkas Levente Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] kvm-51 release Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 13:58:31 +0100 Message-ID: <4736FC77.2080804@bppiac.hu> References: <4731F5B5.1000108@qumranet.com> <473435B6.1000503@bppiac.hu> <4736C752.7060703@qumranet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm-devel To: Avi Kivity Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4736C752.7060703-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org Avi Kivity wrote: > Farkas Levente wrote: >> Avi Kivity wrote: >> >>> If you're having trouble on AMD systems, please try this out. >>> >> >> this version worse than kvm-50:-( >> setup: >> - host: >> - Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz >> - Intel S3000AHV >> - 8GB RAM >> - CentOS-5 >> - kernel-2.6.18-8.1.14.el5 x86_64 64bit >> - guest-1: >> - CentOS-5 >> - kernel-2.6.18-8.1.14.el5 i386 32bit >> - guest-2: >> - CentOS-5 >> - kernel-2.6.18-8.1.14.el5 x86_64 64bit >> - guest-3: >> - Mandrake-9 >> - kernel-2.4.19.16mdk-1-1mdk 32bit >> - guest-4: >> - Windows XP Professional 32bit >> smp not working on any centos guest (guests are hang during boot). even >> the host crash. the worst thing is the host crash during boot with >> another stack trace which i was not able to log. >> i really would like to see some kind of stable version other then >> kvm-36. i see there is a huge ongoing work on ia64, virtio, libkmv and >> arch rearrange, but wouldn't it be better to fix these basic issues >> first? like running two smp guest (32 and 64) on 64 smp host, just to >> boot until the login screen. >> this is when the guest stop and the host dump it: >> > > [...] > >> Call Trace: >> [] softlockup_tick+0xdb/0xed >> [] update_process_times+0x42/0x68 >> [] smp_local_timer_interrupt+0x23/0x47 >> [] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x41/0x47 >> [] apic_timer_interrupt+0x66/0x6c >> [] :kvm:kvm_flush_remote_tlbs+0x16e/0x188 >> [] :kvm:kvm_flush_remote_tlbs+0x15b/0x188 >> [] :kvm:ack_flush+0x0/0x1 >> > > > Are you sure this is a regression relative to kvm-50? Please recheck. i', not sure this's a regression since kvm-50 was so terrible slow that we switch back to kvm-46. but i can't catch any stack trace with kvm-50. anyway even if it's not a regression it's currently not working with smp. -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/