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From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: Alexander Graf <alex@csgraf.de>
Cc: kvm-ppc-devel <kvm-ppc-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>,
	kvm-devel <kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [kvm-ppc-devel]  virtio-net working on PowerPC KVM
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:28:11 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47F0A09B.80601@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43AD5B7C-7EF8-462C-B44C-178F89DE28D5@csgraf.de>

Alexander Graf wrote:
>
> On Mar 31, 2008, at 9:43 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
>
>> Alexander Graf wrote:
>>>
>>> I am experiencing 7-8ms ping latencies (native 0.1ms) on x86_64 as
>>> well, when pinging the virtual machine. Maybe it's not related to
>>> PowerPC? Is it supposed to be that slow?
>>
>> If you have a really old host kernel, or a misconfigured one, it can
>> happen.  What's your host kernel?  are you using hrtimers?
>
> This is a 2.6.22 SUSE kernel. As far as I can see 
> CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS is not set.
>

An alternative is -clock hpet or -clock rtc.

> Guess it's my fault then - nevertheless a warning when starting kvm 
> would be nice.

Yes, indeed.


-- 
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.


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  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-31  8:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-28 22:33 virtio-net working on PowerPC KVM Hollis Blanchard
2008-03-29  9:04 ` [kvm-ppc-devel] " Zhang Wei
2008-03-30 10:31 ` Avi Kivity
2008-03-31  4:52   ` [kvm-ppc-devel] " Christian Ehrhardt
2008-03-31  7:45     ` Alexander Graf
2008-03-31  7:43       ` Avi Kivity
2008-03-31  8:17         ` Alexander Graf
2008-03-31  8:28           ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2008-03-31  9:09           ` Dor Laor

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