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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: "Benoît Canet" <benoit.canet@irqsave.net>
Cc: Erik Rull <erik.rull@rdsoftware.de>,
	"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Boot Problems Windows XP guest
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 15:59:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <521E0247.7060202@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130828135143.GC6170@irqsave.net>

Il 28/08/2013 15:51, Benoît Canet ha scritto:
>> What is the command line to use for avg bps = 1MB/s, max bps = 0?
> On the monitor it would be:
> 
> block_set_io_throttle 1048576 0 0 0 0 0
> 
> When configuring throttle on the command line it would be:
> 
> -drive file=foo.raw,if=virtio,cache=none,bps=1048576
> 
> Also remember that the code is setting bps_max = avg/10 to please guest cfq
> schedulers so a little burst will be done at startup.

Yes, I'm afraid that the burst is problematic here since the current
throttling algorithm doesn't help (and IIUC it behaves as if it had
max=avg/10 due to the 100ms slice time).  This is Windows so no CFQ
here.  Do you need to set bps_max=1 or will bps_max=0 work too?

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-28 13:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-26  9:52 [Qemu-devel] Boot Problems Windows XP guest Erik Rull
2013-08-27  7:38 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-08-27 20:26   ` Erik Rull
2013-08-27 21:31     ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-08-27 21:37       ` Anthony Liguori
2013-08-28  8:05         ` Erik Rull
2013-08-28 11:05         ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-08-28  7:50       ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-08-28  9:07         ` Erik Rull
2013-08-28 13:14           ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-08-28 13:34             ` Benoît Canet
2013-08-28 13:41               ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-08-28 13:51                 ` Benoît Canet
2013-08-28 13:59                   ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2013-08-28 14:05                     ` Benoît Canet
2013-08-28 14:05                       ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-08-28 14:26                         ` Benoît Canet
2013-08-28 18:21                           ` Erik Rull
2013-08-28 18:40                             ` Benoît Canet
2013-08-28 19:22                               ` Erik Rull
2013-08-29  7:53                                 ` Erik Rull
2013-08-29  9:25                                   ` Benoît Canet
2013-08-29 14:51                                     ` Erik Rull
2013-08-29 14:55                                       ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-08-29 15:31                                         ` Erik Rull
2013-08-28 13:19           ` Stefan Hajnoczi

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