Re: Very high memory usage with KVM

[Bernhard Held <bheld@mgpi.de>]

Hi Daniel!

 > I've set in the kernel config:
 >
 > CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=y
And what happened? Are you sure you recompiled and booted the new kernel with 
CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=y?

 > Although I don't see the asked file in initramfs. The file with full
 > path is /lib/firmware/bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-4.6.16.fw:
 >
 > # zcat /boot/initrd.img-2.6.30.4-dgb | cpio -t | grep bnx2
 > lib/modules/2.6.30.4-dgb/kernel/drivers/net/bnx2.ko
 > 300859 blocks
 >
 > Whereupon this variable is set to 'y' would not have to be sufficient?
 >
 > <just_guessing>
 > 1) Perhaps firmware must be in some other directory.
 > 2) Perhaps there is no access to the FS in /lib at the moment that loads
 > drivers.
 > </just_guessing>
Obviously bnx2.ko is loaded from initramfs. At that time the root filesystem is 
not accessible. I expected CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=y is sufficient to solve 
the problem.

Here is what I would try:
- make sure the firmware is included in your kernel, or
- keep bnx2.ko from including in initramfs (unless you boot via network), or
- include /lib/firmware/bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-4.6.16.fw in initramfs

HTH
Bernhard