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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: Takuya Yoshikawa <takuya.yoshikawa@gmail.com>,
	Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa_takuya_b1@lab.ntt.co.jp>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: MMU: Inform users of mmio generation wraparound
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 15:14:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51C30042.5030505@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130620125438.GM5832@redhat.com>

Il 20/06/2013 14:54, Gleb Natapov ha scritto:
>> If they see mysterious peformance problems induced by this wraparound, the only
>> way to know the cause later is by this kind of information in the syslog.
>> So even the first wraparound may better be printed out IMO.
> Think about starting hundreds VMs on a freshly booted host. You will see
> hundreds of those pretty quickly.

With the change I made to Xiao's patch (changing -13 to -150) you won't
see it immediately after startup, but the first wraparound may still
come very soon with a loop that reads the ROM.  (The second takes 5
minutes).

>> I want to let administrators know the cause if possible, any better way?
>>
> Not that I can think of. Paolo what about print_once() and ignore first
> wraparound?

printk_ratelimited is enough, even without ignoring the first
wraparound.  It will handle the case of multiple VMs too.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-20 13:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-20  8:59 [PATCH] KVM: MMU: Inform users of mmio generation wraparound Takuya Yoshikawa
2013-06-20 10:59 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-06-20 11:45   ` Gleb Natapov
2013-06-20 12:28     ` Takuya Yoshikawa
2013-06-20 12:54       ` Gleb Natapov
2013-06-20 13:14         ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2013-06-20 14:26           ` Takuya Yoshikawa
2013-06-20 13:17         ` Takuya Yoshikawa
2013-06-20 12:35     ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-06-20 12:46       ` Gleb Natapov

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