From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pekka Enberg Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Usual batch of random ARM fixes for kvmtool Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 09:52:44 +0300 Message-ID: <5167AF3C.8060409@kernel.org> References: <1365698186-27355-1-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com> <5166E89A.8030105@oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Will Deacon , kvm@vger.kernel.org, marc.zyngier@arm.com To: Sasha Levin Return-path: Received: from mail-lb0-f174.google.com ([209.85.217.174]:60729 "EHLO mail-lb0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752762Ab3DLGws (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Apr 2013 02:52:48 -0400 Received: by mail-lb0-f174.google.com with SMTP id s10so2302568lbi.5 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 2013 23:52:46 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <5166E89A.8030105@oracle.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 04/11/2013 12:36 PM, Will Deacon wrote: >> Without multi-queue, we can boot Debian Wheezy to a prompt in 38MB. With >> the new changes, that increases to 170MB! Any chance we can try and tackle >> this regression please? I keep getting bitten by the OOM killer :( On 04/11/2013 07:45 PM, Sasha Levin wrote: > That's definitely unwanted. > > I'll look into it and try sending something out today/tomorrow. That's very unfortunate. Can you please confirm that reverting commit e026314820acc3cc967308355f3746aca238fda4 ("kvm tools: virtio-net multiqueue support") fixes it? If fixing the issue turns out to be difficult, we should just take multi-queue out until the issues is resolved. Pekka