Re: [Bug #12465] KVM guests stalling on 2.6.28 (bisected)

Kevin Shanahan
2009-03-16T12:46:57Z

On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 11:49 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Kevin Shanahan wrote:
> > On Sat, 2009-03-14 at 20:20 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> >
> >> This message has been generated automatically as a part of a report
> >> of regressions introduced between 2.6.27 and 2.6.28.
> >>
> >> The following bug entry is on the current list of known regressions
> >> introduced between 2.6.27 and 2.6.28. Please verify if it still should
> >> be listed and let me know (either way).
> >>
> >> Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12465
> >> Subject : KVM guests stalling on 2.6.28 (bisected)
> >> Submitter : Kevin Shanahan <kmshanah@ucwb.org.au>
> >> Date : 2009-01-17 03:37 (57 days old)
> >> Handled-By : Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
> >>
> >
> > No further updates since the last reminder.
> > The bug should still be listed.
>
> Does the bug reproduce if you use the acpi_pm clocksource in the guests?

In the guest being pinged? Yes, it still happens.

hermes-old:~# cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/available_clocksource
kvm-clock acpi_pm jiffies tsc
hermes-old:~# cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/current_clocksource
acpi_pm

kmshanah@flexo:~$ ping -c 600 hermes-old

--- hermes-old.wumi.org.au ping statistics ---
600 packets transmitted, 600 received, 0% packet loss, time 599439ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.131/723.197/9941.884/1569.918 ms, pipe 10

I had to reconfigure the guest kernel to make that clocksource
available. The way I had the guest kernel configured before, it only had
tsc and jiffies clocksources available. Unstable TSC was detected, so it
has been using jiffies until now.

Here's another test, using kvm-clock as the guest's clocksource:

hermes-old:~# cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/current_clocksource
kvm-clock

kmshanah@flexo:~$ ping -c 600 hermes-old

--- hermes-old.wumi.org.au ping statistics ---
600 packets transmitted, 600 received, 0% packet loss, time 599295ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.131/1116.170/30840.411/4171.905 ms, pipe 31

Regards,
Kevin.