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From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
To: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
	Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 2/4] virtio-pci: Use ioeventfd for virtqueue notify
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 09:54:00 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimMP82vg368tQBpKt-nVjMvmNqDCKu9d2xtESeu@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=b6qMRNk9FveYhGviRXyOXBVu9kpZ2wuBTgfpn@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com> wrote:
> If any other vcpu interruption makes virtio-ioeventfd chug along then
> why are you seeing 100% CPU livelock?  My theory is that dynticks has
> a race condition which causes timers to stop working in QEMU.

I forgot to mention that you can test this theory by building without
I/O thread and running with -clock hpet.

If the guest no longer hangs, then this suggests you're seeing the
dynticks race condition.

Stefan

  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-25  9:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-12 15:02 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 0/4] virtio: Use ioeventfd for virtqueue notify Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-12-12 15:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 1/4] virtio-pci: Rename bugs field to flags Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-12-12 15:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 2/4] virtio-pci: Use ioeventfd for virtqueue notify Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-01-24 18:54   ` Kevin Wolf
2011-01-24 19:36     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-01-24 19:48       ` Kevin Wolf
2011-01-24 19:47         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-01-24 20:05           ` Kevin Wolf
2011-01-25  7:12             ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-01-25  9:49               ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-01-25  9:54                 ` Stefan Hajnoczi [this message]
2011-01-25 11:27                 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-01-25 13:20                   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-01-25 14:07                     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-01-25 19:18                 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-01-25 19:45                   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-01-25 19:51                     ` Anthony Liguori
2011-01-25 19:59                       ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-01-26  0:18                         ` Anthony Liguori
2010-12-12 15:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 3/4] virtio-pci: Don't use ioeventfd on old kernels Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-12-12 15:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 4/4] docs: Document virtio PCI -device ioeventfd=on|off Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-12-12 15:14 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v5 0/4] virtio: Use ioeventfd for virtqueue notify Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-12-12 20:41 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-12-12 20:42   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-12-12 20:56     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-12-12 21:09       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-12-13 10:24         ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-12-13 10:38           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-12-13 13:11             ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-12-13 13:35               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-12-13 13:36                 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-12-13 14:06                   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-12-13 15:27                   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-12-13 16:00                     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-12-13 16:29                       ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-12-13 16:30                         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-12-13 16:12                     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-12-13 16:28                       ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-12-13 17:57                         ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-12-13 18:52                           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-12-15 11:42                             ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-12-15 11:48                               ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-12-15 12:00                                 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-12-15 12:14                               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-12-15 12:59                                 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-12-16 16:40                                   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-12-16 23:39                                     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-12-19 14:49                                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-01-06 16:41                                     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-01-06 17:04                                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-01-06 18:00                                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-01-07  8:56                                         ` Stefan Hajnoczi

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