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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 0.11: SMP guests using one host CPU only?
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:41:39 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ADD85D3.7000004@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ADD7CFF.1080003@wpkg.org>

On 10/20/2009 06:03 PM, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> On a 8 CPU host, I created a guest with 4 CPUs (-smp 4).
>
> Unfortunately, the guest only uses one host CPU.
> For example, running "cat /dev/urandom | gzip -9 >/dev/null &" several 
> times on this guest causes load on only one host CPU.
>
> Is it expected?

No.  What does 'top -H' show?

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-20  9:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-20  9:03 0.11: SMP guests using one host CPU only? Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-10-20  9:41 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2009-10-20 10:17   ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-10-20 13:16     ` Avi Kivity
2009-10-20 13:19       ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-10-20 13:21         ` Avi Kivity
2009-10-20 13:48           ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-10-22  7:05             ` Avi Kivity
2009-10-22  9:28               ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-10-22 10:51                 ` Avi Kivity

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