Re: Extremely slow boot on VMWare with Opteron 2352 (acpi?)

2010-03-10 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 06:42:02PM -0600, Kevin Day wrote: On Mar 9, 2010, at 4:27 PM, John Baldwin wrote: On Tuesday 09 March 2010 3:40:26 pm Kevin Day wrote: If I boot up on an Opteron 2218 system, it boots normally. If I boot the exact same VM moved to a 2352, I get:

Re: Extremely slow boot on VMWare with Opteron 2352 (acpi?)

2010-03-10 Thread John Baldwin
On Wednesday 10 March 2010 6:27:53 am Kostik Belousov wrote: On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 06:42:02PM -0600, Kevin Day wrote: On Mar 9, 2010, at 4:27 PM, John Baldwin wrote: On Tuesday 09 March 2010 3:40:26 pm Kevin Day wrote: If I boot up on an Opteron 2218 system, it boots

Re: Extremely slow boot on VMWare with Opteron 2352 (acpi?)

2010-03-10 Thread Kevin Day
On Mar 10, 2010, at 5:27 AM, Kostik Belousov wrote: I think that the idea not to for CLFLUSH in the loop for large regions is good. We do not extract the L2/L3 cache size now, I suppose that 2MB estimation is good for most situations. commit bbac1632d349d68b905df644656ce9a8e4aed094 Thanks

Extremely slow boot on VMWare with Opteron 2352 (acpi?)

2010-03-09 Thread Kevin Day
I'm troubleshooting a pretty weird problem with running FreeBSD 8.0 (amd64) inside VMware ESX/ESXi servers. We've got a wide range of physical servers running identical copies of VMware and identical FreeBSD virtual machines. Everything works fine on all of our servers for Windows and Linux

Re: Extremely slow boot on VMWare with Opteron 2352 (acpi?)

2010-03-09 Thread John Baldwin
On Tuesday 09 March 2010 3:40:26 pm Kevin Day wrote: I'm troubleshooting a pretty weird problem with running FreeBSD 8.0 (amd64) inside VMware ESX/ESXi servers. We've got a wide range of physical servers running identical copies of VMware and identical FreeBSD virtual machines. Everything

Re: Extremely slow boot on VMWare with Opteron 2352 (acpi?)

2010-03-09 Thread Kevin Day
On Mar 9, 2010, at 4:27 PM, John Baldwin wrote: On Tuesday 09 March 2010 3:40:26 pm Kevin Day wrote: If I boot up on an Opteron 2218 system, it boots normally. If I boot the exact same VM moved to a 2352, I get: acpi0: INTEL 440BX on motherboard PCIe: Memory Mapped configuration base

Re: Extremely slow boot on VMWare with Opteron 2352 (acpi?)

2010-03-09 Thread Ryan Stone
256MB is correct. The PCI standard allows for up to 256 buses, each with up to 32 slots, and each slot can have up to 8 functions. PCIe devices have a full 4096 bytes worth of configuration registers. Multiply all that and you get 256MB. Also, keep in mind that it's not allocating 256MB of