Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] report revision 3 of the ACPI/SMBus PIIX4 controller

2008-01-14 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 04:49:27PM +0100, Anders wrote: > Marcelo Tosatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 12:19:20PM +0100, Anders wrote: > > [...] > > >> How do you get that high consumption? What combination of clocks/hz on > >> host/guest are you using? > > > > CONFI

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] report revision 3 of the ACPI/SMBus PIIX4 controller

2008-01-13 Thread Anders
Marcelo Tosatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 12:19:20PM +0100, Anders wrote: [...] >> How do you get that high consumption? What combination of clocks/hz on >> host/guest are you using? > > CONFIG_HZ=250 Okay, with nohz=off (in the guest) I also see some higher load. I

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] report revision 3 of the ACPI/SMBus PIIX4 controller

2008-01-13 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 12:19:20PM +0100, Anders wrote: > Marcelo Tosatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > This reduces idle guest CPU consumption from 14% to 8% on 4-way KVM > > guest. > > How do you get that high consumption? What combination of clocks/hz on > host/guest are you using? CONFIG

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] report revision 3 of the ACPI/SMBus PIIX4 controller

2008-01-13 Thread Anders
Marcelo Tosatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This reduces idle guest CPU consumption from 14% to 8% on 4-way KVM > guest. How do you get that high consumption? What combination of clocks/hz on host/guest are you using? I am cursious, since my idle KVM process is at less than 1%. Regards, Ande

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] report revision 3 of the ACPI/SMBus PIIX4 controller

2008-01-13 Thread Avi Kivity
Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > The PIIX4 ACPI controller prior to revision 0x3 contains a bug where > reading of the timer port is unreliable, so the kernel reads it three > times for consistency check. > > QEMU does not suffer from that problem :) > > The datasheet for PIIX4, PIIX4E, and PIIX4M is the s

[kvm-devel] [PATCH] report revision 3 of the ACPI/SMBus PIIX4 controller

2008-01-11 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
The PIIX4 ACPI controller prior to revision 0x3 contains a bug where reading of the timer port is unreliable, so the kernel reads it three times for consistency check. QEMU does not suffer from that problem :) The datasheet for PIIX4, PIIX4E, and PIIX4M is the same. I failed to find any indicati