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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: ya su <suya94335@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Theurer <habanero@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: windows workload: many ept_violation and mmio exits
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 10:42:22 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E59F15E.6000201@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+tHM2HH437Y4KLmGO+59wvR-TMSacGnxgt5QB8w5LDtJ+p3Xw@mail.gmail.com>

On 08/26/2011 08:32 AM, ya su wrote:
> hi,Avi:
>
>      I met the same problem, tons of hpet vm_exits(vector 209, fault
> address is in the guest vm's hpet mmio range), even I disable hpet
> device in win7 guest vm, it still produce a larget amount of vm_exits
> when trace-cmd ;  I add -no-hpet to start the vm, it still has HPET
> device inside VM.
>
>      Does that means the HPET device in VM does not depend on the
> emulated hpet device in qemu-kvm? Is there any way to disable the VM
> HPET device to prevent so many vm_exits?  Thansk.
>

Looks like a bug to me.

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-28  7:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-03 13:46 windows workload: many ept_violation and mmio exits Andrew Theurer
2009-12-03 14:34 ` Avi Kivity
2011-08-26  5:32   ` ya su
2011-08-28  7:42     ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2011-08-28 18:54       ` Alexander Graf
2011-08-28 20:42         ` HPET configuration in Seabios (was: Re: windows workload: many ept_violation and mmio exits) Jan Kiszka
2011-08-28 22:14           ` Kevin O'Connor
2011-08-29  5:32             ` HPET configuration in Seabios Avi Kivity
2011-08-29 10:25               ` Jan Kiszka
2011-08-29 11:00                 ` Avi Kivity
2011-08-29 11:05                   ` Jan Kiszka
2011-08-29 11:11                     ` Avi Kivity
2011-08-29 11:12                     ` Jan Kiszka

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