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

[Peter Lieven <pl@dlhnet.de>]

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

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