On 27.03.2012 19:06, Vadim Rozenfeld wrote:
On Tuesday, March 27, 2012 06:16:11 PM Peter Lieven wrote:
On 27.03.2012 18:12, Vadim Rozenfeld wrote:
On Tuesday, March 27, 2012 05:58:01 PM Peter Lieven wrote:
On 27.03.2012 17:44, Vadim Rozenfeld wrote:
On Tuesday, March 27, 2012 04:06:13 PM Peter Lieven wrote:
On 27.03.2012 14:29, Gleb Natapov wrote:
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 02:28:04PM +0200, Peter Lieven wrote:
On 27.03.2012 14:26, Gleb Natapov wrote:
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 02:20:23PM +0200, Peter Lieven wrote:
On 27.03.2012 12:00, Gleb Natapov wrote:
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 11:26:29AM +0200, Peter Lieven wrote:
On 27.03.2012 11:23, Vadim Rozenfeld wrote:
On Tuesday, March 27, 2012 10:56:05 AM Gleb Natapov wrote:
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 10:11:43PM +0200, Vadim Rozenfeld
wrote:
On Monday, March 26, 2012 08:54:50 PM Peter Lieven wrote:
On 26.03.2012 20:36, Vadim Rozenfeld wrote:
On Monday, March 26, 2012 07:52:49 PM Gleb Natapov wrote:
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 07:46:03PM +0200, Vadim Rozenfeld
wrote:
On Monday, March 26, 2012 07:00:32 PM Peter Lieven wrote:
On 22.03.2012 10:38, Vadim Rozenfeld wrote:
On Thursday, March 22, 2012 10:52:42 AM Peter Lieven
wrote:
On 22.03.2012 09:48, Vadim Rozenfeld wrote:
On Thursday, March 22, 2012 09:53:45 AM Gleb Natapov
wrote:
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 06:31:02PM +0100, Peter
Lieven
wrote:
On 21.03.2012 12:10, David Cure wrote:
hello,
Le Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 02:38:22PM +0200, Gleb
Natapov
ecrivait :
Try to add<feature policy='disable'
name='hypervisor'/> to cpu definition in XML
and check command line.
ok I try this but I can't use<cpu model>
to map the host cpu
(my libvirt is 0.9.8) so I use :
<cpu match='exact'>
<model>Opteron_G3</model>
<feature policy='disable'
name='hypervisor'/>
</cpu>
(the physical server use Opteron CPU).
The log is here :
http://www.roullier.net/Report/report-3.2-vhost-ne
t- 1v cpu-cp u.tx t.gz
And now with only 1 vcpu, the response time is
8.5s, great
improvment. We keep this configuration for
production
: we check the response time when some other users
are connected.
please keep in mind, that setting -hypervisor,
disabling hpet and only one vcpu
makes windows use tsc as clocksource. you have to
make sure, that your vm is not switching between
physical sockets on your system and that you have
constant_tsc feature to have a stable tsc between
the cores in the same socket. its also likely that
the vm will crash when live migrated.
All true. I asked to try -hypervisor only to verify
where we loose performance. Since you get good
result with it frequent access to PM timer is
probably the reason. I do not recommend using
-hypervisor for production!
@gleb: do you know whats the state of in-kernel
hyper-v timers?
Vadim is working on it. I'll let him answer.
It would be nice to have synthetic timers supported.
But,
at the moment, I'm only researching this feature.
So it will take months at least?
I would say weeks.
Is there a way, we could contribute and help you with
this?
Hi Peter,
You are welcome to add an appropriate handler.
I think Vadim refers to this HV MSR
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/f
f5 42 633%28 v=vs .85 %29.aspx
This one is pretty simple to support. Please see
attachments for more details. I was thinking about
synthetic timers http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-
us/library/windows/hardware/ff542758(v=vs.85).aspx
is this what microsoft qpc uses as clocksource in hyper-v?
Yes, it should be enough for Win7 / W2K8R2.
To clarify the thing that microsoft qpc uses is what is
implemented by the patch Vadim attached to his previous email.
But I believe that additional qemu patch is needed for Windows
to actually use it.
You are right.
bits 1 and 9 must be set to on in leaf 0x40000003 and HPET
should be completely removed from ACPI.
could you advise how to do this and/or make a patch?
the stuff you send yesterday is for qemu, right? would
it be possible to use it in qemu-kvm also?
No, they are for kernel.
i meant the qemu.diff file.
Yes, I missed the second attachment.
if i understand correctly i have to pass -cpu host,+hv_refcnt to
qemu?
Looks like it.
ok, so it would be interesting if it helps to avoid the pmtimer
reads we observed earlier. right?
Yes.
first feedback: performance seems to be amazing. i cannot confirm that
it breaks hv_spinlocks, hv_vapic and hv_relaxed.
why did you assume this?
I didn't mean that hv_refcnt will break any other hyper-v features.
I just want to say that turning hv_refcnt on (as any other hv_ option)
will crash Win8 on boot-up.
yes, i got it meanwhile ;-)
let me know what you think should be done to further test
the refcnt implementation.
i would suggest to return at least 0xFFFFFFFF if msr 0x40000021
is read.
IIRC Win7(W2k8R2) only reads this MSR. Win8 reads and writes.
you mean win7 only writes, don't you?
Oh, yes. It only writes.
Actually it works this way: kernel allocates one page, maps it into the system
space and writes the its address to
0x40000021 MSR. But to make guest accessing this page, the partition
reference tsc facility must be enabled, otherwise you can keep any garbage
there without breaking your guest.
yes, but garbage is different from failing the msr read, isn't it?
another thing i came across with the refcnt. the spec says it runs
at units of 100ns. from what is see inside windows (e.g. when
pinging a local device in the network). it seems that it is 100times
to slow. i will fix this and test further.
peter
at least you put a break in set_msr_hyperv for this msr.
i just thought that it would be ok to return the value that
is defined for iTSC is not supported?
peter
peter
Cheers,
Vadim.
no more pmtimer reads. i can now almost fully utililizy a 1GBit
interface with a file transfer while there was not one
cpu core fully utilized as observed with pmtimer. some live migration
tests revealed that it did not crash even under load.
@vadim: i think we need a proper patch for the others to test this ;-)
what i observed: is it right, that HV_X64_MSR_TIME_REF_COUNT is
missing in msrs_to_save[] in x86/x86.c of the kernel module?
thanks for you help,
peter
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Gleb.
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