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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>,
	Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, asias.hejun@gmail.com, gorcunov@gmail.com,
	prasadjoshi124@gmail.com,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	takuya.yoshikawa@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/8] kvm tools: Add rwlock wrapper
Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 15:44:09 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DE39119.6050302@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110530123602.GK22324@elte.hu>

On 05/30/2011 03:36 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> You are probably right about 1024 CPUs.
>
> Right now i can produce something similar to it: 42 vcpus on a single
> CPU:
>
> 	$ taskse 1 kvm run --cpus 42
>
> And that hangs early on during bootup, around:
>
> [    0.236000] Disabled fast string operations
> [    0.242000]  #4
> [    0.270000] Disabled fast string operations
> [    0.275000]  #5
> [    0.317000] Disabled fast string operations
> [    0.322000]  #6
> [    0.352000] Disabled fast string operations
> [    0.358000]  #7
> [    0.414000] Disabled fast string operations
>
> The threads seem to be livelocked:
>
>    PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
> 22227 mingo     20   0  471g  95m  904 R 12.9  0.8   0:06.39 kvm
> 22230 mingo     20   0  471g  95m  904 R 12.9  0.8   0:06.36 kvm
> 22226 mingo     20   0  471g  95m  904 R 11.9  0.8   0:07.04 kvm
> 22228 mingo     20   0  471g  95m  904 R 11.9  0.8   0:06.38 kvm
> 22229 mingo     20   0  471g  95m  904 R 11.9  0.8   0:06.37 kvm
> 22231 mingo     20   0  471g  95m  904 R 11.9  0.8   0:06.37 kvm
> 22232 mingo     20   0  471g  95m  904 R 11.9  0.8   0:06.36 kvm
> 22233 mingo     20   0  471g  95m  904 R 11.9  0.8   0:06.33 kvm
>      7 root      -2  19     0    0    0 S  2.0  0.0   1:12.53 rcuc0
>
> with no apparent progress being made.
>

Well, strangely, 42-on-1 booted for me in qemu, and only got 
ridiculously slow in initrd.  Three minutes and it's still booting.

I don't really see how tools/kvm could cause this slowness, though.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-30 12:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-30  8:30 [PATCH v2 1/8] kvm tools: Use correct value for user signal base Sasha Levin
2011-05-30  8:30 ` [PATCH v2 2/8] kvm tools: Remove wrong global definition of kvm Sasha Levin
2011-05-30  8:38   ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-30  8:59     ` Sasha Levin
2011-05-30  8:30 ` [PATCH v2 3/8] kvm tools: Allow pausing guests Sasha Levin
2011-05-30  8:39   ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-30  8:30 ` [PATCH v2 4/8] kvm tools: Pause/resume guest using SIGUSR2 Sasha Levin
2011-05-30  8:41   ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-30  8:30 ` [PATCH v2 5/8] kvm tools: Add a brlock Sasha Levin
2011-05-30  8:30 ` [PATCH v2 6/8] kvm tools: Add rwlock wrapper Sasha Levin
2011-05-30  8:43   ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-30  9:29     ` Pekka Enberg
2011-05-30  9:34       ` Sasha Levin
2011-05-30  9:40         ` Pekka Enberg
2011-05-30  9:46           ` Sasha Levin
2011-05-30  9:48             ` Pekka Enberg
2011-05-30  9:54               ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-30 11:11                 ` Takuya Yoshikawa
2011-05-30 11:12                   ` Sasha Levin
2011-05-30 11:26                     ` Takuya Yoshikawa
2011-05-30 11:39                       ` Avi Kivity
2011-05-30 11:49                         ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-30 11:55                           ` Pekka Enberg
2011-05-30 11:58                             ` Sasha Levin
2011-05-30 12:20                               ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-30 12:22                                 ` Sasha Levin
2011-05-30 12:25                                   ` Avi Kivity
2011-05-30 12:23                                 ` Avi Kivity
2011-05-30 12:30                                   ` Pekka Enberg
2011-05-30 12:32                                     ` Avi Kivity
2011-05-30 14:10                                   ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-30 14:30                                     ` Avi Kivity
2011-05-30 14:43                                       ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-30 14:50                                         ` Avi Kivity
2011-05-30 19:32                                           ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-30 12:04                           ` Avi Kivity
2011-05-30 12:36                             ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-30 12:44                               ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2011-05-30 12:46                                 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-05-30 12:48                                   ` Avi Kivity
2011-05-30 13:05                               ` Sasha Levin
2011-06-03  7:27                               ` Sasha Levin
2011-06-03  7:34                                 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-06-03  7:54                                   ` Sasha Levin
2011-06-03 19:31                                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-06-03 19:56                                       ` Sasha Levin
2011-06-03 20:22                                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-06-03 21:03                                           ` Sasha Levin
2011-06-03 21:20                                             ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-06-03 22:54                                               ` Sasha Levin
2011-06-03 23:05                                                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-06-04  6:26                                                   ` Sasha Levin
2011-06-04 16:30                                                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-06-14 22:26                                                       ` Sasha Levin
2011-06-14 23:42                                                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-06-15  1:25                                                           ` Sasha Levin
2011-06-15  4:22                                                             ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-06-05 12:12                               ` Avi Kivity
2011-05-30 14:16                           ` Takuya Yoshikawa
2011-05-30  9:56             ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-30 10:05               ` Sasha Levin
2011-05-30 10:13                 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-30 10:22                   ` Sasha Levin
2011-05-30 10:30                     ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-30 10:41                       ` Sasha Levin
2011-05-30  8:30 ` [PATCH v2 7/8] kvm tools: Add debug mode to brlock Sasha Levin
2011-05-30  8:30 ` [PATCH v2 8/8] kvm tools: Use brlock in MMIO and IOPORT Sasha Levin
2011-05-30  8:47   ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-30  8:56     ` Sasha Levin
2011-05-30  8:35 ` [PATCH v2 1/8] kvm tools: Use correct value for user signal base Ingo Molnar
2011-05-30  8:40   ` Sasha Levin
2011-05-30  8:49     ` Ingo Molnar

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