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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: strange guest slowness after some time
Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 17:35:55 +0300
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Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
>> Maybe virtio is racy and a loaded host exposes the race.
>
> I see it happening with virtio on 2.6.29.x guests as well.
>
> So, what would you do if you saw it on your systems as well? ;)
>
> Add some debug routines into virtio_* modules?
>

I'm no virtio expert.  Maybe I'd insert tracepoints to record interrupts 
and kicks.


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