Re: [Qemu-devel] slow virtio network with vhost=on and multiple cores

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 08:23:44AM +0100, Peter Lieven wrote:
> On 15.03.2013 00:04, Davide Guerri wrote:
> >Yes this is definitely an option :)
> >
> >Just for curiosity, what is the effect of "in-kernel irqchip"?
> 
> it emulates the irqchip in-kernel (in the KVM kernel module) which
> avoids userspace exits to qemu. in your particular case I remember
> that it made all IRQs deliverd to vcpu0 on. So I think this is a workaround
> and not the real fix. I think Michael is right that it is a
> client kernel bug. It would be good to find out what it is and ask
> the 2.6.32 maintainers to include it. i further have seen that
> with more recent kernels and inkernel-irqchip the irqs are delivered
> to vcpu0 only again (without multiqueue).
>
> >Is it possible to disable it on a "live" domain?
> 
> try it. i don't know. you definetely have to do a live migration for it,
> but I have no clue if the VM will survice this.
> 
> Peter

I doubt you can migrate VMs between irqchip/non irqchip configurations.

> >
> >Cheers,
> >  Davide
> >
> >
> >On 14/mar/2013, at 19:21, Peter Lieven <pl@dlhnet.de> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>Am 14.03.2013 um 19:15 schrieb Davide Guerri <d.guerri@unidata.it>:
> >>
> >>>Of course I can do some test but a kernel upgrade is not an option here :(
> >>
> >>disabling the in-kernel irqchip (default since 1.2.0) should also help, maybe this is an option.
> >>
> >>Peter
> >>
> >>
> >