Re: [kvm-devel] [patch 0/3] separate thread for IO handling V3

2008-04-03 Thread Avi Kivity
Marcelo Tosatti wrote: This version fixes the vmdk problems found by the regression testing. Dor, regarding the option to disable the IO thread, it would require duplicating most of the changed code. For now I believe its better to get the patch into a state where its considered stable

Re: [kvm-devel] [patch 0/3] separate thread for IO handling V3

2008-04-03 Thread Avi Kivity
Avi Kivity wrote: There's still something wrong. When I start Windows with these patches applied, Windows startup consumes ~50 sec of cpu time, compared to ~12 sec without. Pinning qemu into cpu 0 seems to fix this. I'll investigate some more. Changing GUI_REFRESH_INTERVAL to 1000

Re: [kvm-devel] [patch 0/3] separate thread for IO handling V3

2008-04-03 Thread Avi Kivity
Avi Kivity wrote: Avi Kivity wrote: There's still something wrong. When I start Windows with these patches applied, Windows startup consumes ~50 sec of cpu time, compared to ~12 sec without. Pinning qemu into cpu 0 seems to fix this. I'll investigate some more. Changing

[kvm-devel] [patch 0/3] separate thread for IO handling V3

2008-04-02 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
This version fixes the vmdk problems found by the regression testing. Dor, regarding the option to disable the IO thread, it would require duplicating most of the changed code. For now I believe its better to get the patch into a state where its considered stable enough for inclusion. Please