Re: Perf trace event parse errors for KVM events

2010-05-29 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 05:45:57PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 17:42 +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: I get parse errors when using Steven Rostedt's trace-cmd tool, too. Any ideas what is going on here? I can provide more info (e.g. trace files) if necessary. Does

Re: raw disks no longer work in latest kvm (kvm-88 was fine)

2010-05-29 Thread Antoine Martin
On 05/24/2010 12:47 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Antoine Martin anto...@nagafix.co.uk wrote: Why does it work in a chroot for the other options (aio=native, if=ide, etc) but not for aio!=native?? Looks like I am misunderstanding the semantics of chroot... It

Re: raw disks no longer work in latest kvm (kvm-88 was fine)

2010-05-29 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Antoine Martin anto...@nagafix.co.uk wrote: Can someone explain the aio options? All I can find is this: # qemu-system-x86_64 -h | grep -i aio       [,addr=A][,id=name][,aio=threads|native] I assume it means the aio=threads emulates the kernel's aio with

Re: raw disks no longer work in latest kvm (kvm-88 was fine)

2010-05-29 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 04:42:59PM +0700, Antoine Martin wrote: Can someone explain the aio options? All I can find is this: # qemu-system-x86_64 -h | grep -i aio [,addr=A][,id=name][,aio=threads|native] I assume it means the aio=threads emulates the kernel's aio with separate

Re: raw disks no longer work in latest kvm (kvm-88 was fine)

2010-05-29 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 10:55:18AM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: I would expect that aio=native is faster but benchmarks show that this isn't true for all workloads. In what benchmark do you see worse results for aio=native compared to aio=threads? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: raw disks no longer work in latest kvm (kvm-88 was fine)

2010-05-29 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Christoph Hellwig h...@infradead.org wrote: In what benchmark do you see worse results for aio=native compared to aio=threads? Sequential reads using 4 concurrent dd if=/dev/vdb iflag=direct of=/dev/null bs=8k processes. 2 vcpu guest with 4 GB RAM, virtio

Re: Perf trace event parse errors for KVM events

2010-05-29 Thread Avi Kivity
On 05/29/2010 12:45 AM, Steven Rostedt wrote: On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 17:42 +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: I get parse errors when using Steven Rostedt's trace-cmd tool, too. Any ideas what is going on here? I can provide more info (e.g. trace files) if necessary. Does trace-cmd fail

Re: [PATCH] VFIO driver: Non-privileged user level PCI drivers

2010-05-29 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Saturday 29 May 2010, Tom Lyon wrote: +/* + * Structure for DMA mapping of user buffers + * vaddr, dmaaddr, and size must all be page aligned + * buffer may only be larger than 1 page if (a) there is + * an iommu in the system, or (b) buffer is part of a huge page + */ +struct

Re: [PATCH] VFIO driver: Non-privileged user level PCI drivers

2010-05-29 Thread Avi Kivity
On 05/29/2010 02:55 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: On Saturday 29 May 2010, Tom Lyon wrote: +/* + * Structure for DMA mapping of user buffers + * vaddr, dmaaddr, and size must all be page aligned + * buffer may only be larger than 1 page if (a) there is + * an iommu in the system, or (b) buffer

Re: Perf trace event parse errors for KVM events

2010-05-29 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 14:50 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: On 05/29/2010 12:45 AM, Steven Rostedt wrote: On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 17:42 +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: I get parse errors when using Steven Rostedt's trace-cmd tool, too. Any ideas what is going on here? I can provide more info

RE: Hey, Opt In Email Lists Give Away!

2010-05-29 Thread Sam L. Carl
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how to unbind the device from guest to host with vt-d

2010-05-29 Thread 贺鹏
Hi, everyone, I 'm here ask how to unbind the device from guest to host with vt-d. I use the /sys/bus/pci/driver/pci-stub/remove_id and the /sys/bus/pci/driver/pci-stub/unbind but I can't find the dir : /sys/bus/pci/device/:09:00.0/driver . So I can't bind the driver back to host system any

Re: [QEMU-KVM]: Megasas + TCM_Loop + SG_IO into Windows XP guests

2010-05-29 Thread Nicholas A. Bellinger
On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 04:18 -0700, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 11:43 +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote: Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 02:42 -0700, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: Greetings Hannes, So I spent some more time with XP guests this