It appears to be a problem with the kernel proper (ie., not a Red Hat patch). I 
hit the soft lockup problem with kvm-48 and the 2.6.18.4 kernel which is the 
base for RHEL5. That suggests a delivery between 2.6.18.4 (November 2006) and 
2.6.23.1 fixed it.

david


Avi Kivity wrote:
> david ahern wrote:
>> The issue appears to be with the RHEL5 kernel (host OS is rhel5). I tried 
>> your suggestions below -- no effect; still hit the softlockup.
>>
>> I then moved the host to the 2.6.23.1 kernel but with the kvm-48 code base. 
>> Surprisingly, I had no issues starting my guest with '-smp 4'.
>>
>>   
> 
> Well, I regularly start up 4-way Linux guests on 2.6.bleeding.edge.  I'd 
> like to clear that problem for users on older kernels, though.
> 

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