Re: [kvm-devel] kvm very slow

2007-08-16 Thread Avi Kivity
Matthew Kent wrote: ACPI: no DMI BIOS year, acpi=force is required to enable ACPI Well, we now have the bios in kvm-userspace.git (under bios/). If someone wants a go at adding DMI to the bios, it's waiting for you. -- Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and

Re: [kvm-devel] kvm very slow

2007-08-10 Thread Ulrich Schreiner
the system is now MUCH faster! it boots really fast, i think, in the init-scripts there are much sleep x, and every x were 2*x in reality. other tasks are also much faster i'm happy now :-) although i cannot reboot ... (it hangs after halted), but that is another thread. Am Donnerstag, den

Re: [kvm-devel] kvm very slow

2007-08-09 Thread Matthew Kent
On Wed, 2007-01-08 at 07:22 +0200, Ulrich Schreiner wrote: hi, im using a 64 bit fedora7 system with a quad-core processor to host multiple virtual machines. literally the exact same setup here my current kernel is: Linux testserver 2.6.22.1-27.fc7 #1 SMP Tue Jul 17 17:19:58 EDT 2007

Re: [kvm-devel] kvm very slow

2007-08-09 Thread Matthew Kent
[oops sorry. should have included the full dmesg from the bad boot and cc'd the original poster] On Thu, 2007-09-08 at 16:23 -0700, Matthew Kent wrote: On Wed, 2007-01-08 at 07:22 +0200, Ulrich Schreiner wrote: hi, im using a 64 bit fedora7 system with a quad-core processor to host

Re: [kvm-devel] kvm very slow

2007-08-09 Thread Ulrich Schreiner
Matthew, your the hero of the day! with acpi=force in the guest the clock ticks correct. ACPI: no DMI BIOS year, acpi=force is required to enable ACPI is it possible to use another bios where the acpi=force switch is not needed? or to fix the bios (i think kvm uses it's own bios, not the

Re: [kvm-devel] kvm very slow

2007-08-08 Thread Ulrich Schreiner
ok, patched kvm-33, compile, install i started qemu-system-x86_64 with -no-rtc -use-hpet and ... well the time drift is unchanged. ok, the warning for dev.rtc... has gone. doing a date (guest) gives me (for example): 8:08:59 after 10 (real!) seconds, date (guest) gives me 8:09:04 -- 10 real

Re: [kvm-devel] kvm very slow

2007-08-07 Thread Ulrich Schreiner
no ideas what can be done? why it is so slow? i've tried the -L /usr/shar/kvm to use the kvm-bios but no better performance ... Am Donnerstag, den 02.08.2007, 11:24 +0300 schrieb Avi Kivity: Ulrich Schreiner wrote: dmesg|grep kvm SELinux: initialized (dev kvmfs, type kvmfs), uses

Re: [kvm-devel] kvm very slow

2007-08-07 Thread Dor Laor
no ideas what can be done? why it is so slow? Let's try to catch the cause for the 74k ioexits per second. Please add #define DEBUG_IOPORT in qemu/vl.c and qemu/exec.c and recompile. After that when the guest runs and does 74k ioexits on idle, enter the qemu's monitor (ctrl-alt-1) enter 'log

Re: [kvm-devel] kvm very slow

2007-08-07 Thread Ulrich Schreiner
today morning i compiled kvm-33 and the output of kvm-stat is much better now (guest in idle): kvm statistics efer_reload 109442736504 exits137226886967 halt_exits1084344 935 invlpg 0 0 io_exits 76689145070 irq_exits 27886 2

Re: [kvm-devel] kvm very slow

2007-08-07 Thread Luca
On 8/7/07, Ulrich Schreiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could not configure '/dev/rtc' to have a 1024 Hz timer. This is not a fatal error, but for better emulation accuracy either use a 2.6 host Linux kernel or type 'echo 1024 /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq' as root. well i HAVE a 2.6kernel

Re: [kvm-devel] kvm very slow

2007-08-07 Thread Dor Laor
today morning i compiled kvm-33 and the output of kvm-stat is much better now (guest in idle): kvm statistics efer_reload 109442736504 exits137226886967 halt_exits1084344 935 invlpg 0 0 io_exits 76689145070 irq_exits 27886 2

Re: [kvm-devel] kvm very slow

2007-08-07 Thread Luca
On 8/7/07, Dor Laor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Luca claims the HPET intefer the RTC. Can it be disabled? ( I know some new chipsets implement rtc using HPET). Basically HPET can operate in legacy mode - where it uses the same IRQ as the RTC (and RTC won't deliver any interrupt) - or in standard

Re: [kvm-devel] kvm very slow

2007-08-07 Thread Ulrich Schreiner
well there are running some default F7 daemons. yum-updatesd (python) setroubleshootd (python) hald ... but no process is really running, when doing a htop i the processor has a load of 0.7% what is the efer_reload? while i'm writing this email i have kvm_stat in another shell in the

Re: [kvm-devel] kvm very slow

2007-08-07 Thread Dor Laor
Luca claims the HPET intefer the RTC. Can it be disabled? ( I know some new chipsets implement rtc using HPET). Basically HPET can operate in legacy mode - where it uses the same IRQ as the RTC (and RTC won't deliver any interrupt) - or in standard mode where the IO-APIC can be configured to

Re: [kvm-devel] kvm very slow

2007-08-07 Thread Ulrich Schreiner
We're experiencing guest clock drifts even when the host is running with HZ=1000. But so far there were no performance problmes around it. It's worth a shot anyway. are there any benchmarkings (and tools) which i can run inside the guest? are there any official results with which i can

Re: [kvm-devel] kvm very slow

2007-08-07 Thread Dor Laor
Basically HPET can operate in legacy mode - where it uses the same IRQ as the RTC (and RTC won't deliver any interrupt) - or in standard mode where the IO-APIC can be configured to deliver the interrupt on any line. ATM Linux can only use the legacy mode. You can of course disable HPET, but

Re: [kvm-devel] kvm very slow

2007-08-07 Thread Luca Tettamanti
Il Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 02:08:08PM +0200, Luca ha scritto: On 8/7/07, Dor Laor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Luca claims the HPET intefer the RTC. Can it be disabled? ( I know some new chipsets implement rtc using HPET). Basically HPET can operate in legacy mode - where it uses the same IRQ

Re: [kvm-devel] kvm very slow

2007-08-02 Thread Avi Kivity
Ulrich Schreiner wrote: dmesg|grep kvm SELinux: initialized (dev kvmfs, type kvmfs), uses genfs_contexts kvm: emulating exchange as write There may be messages that aren't prefixed with 'kvm:' (that's a bug btw). Please check. now booting into a F7 image, after the system is ready

Re: [kvm-devel] kvm very slow

2007-08-01 Thread Avi Kivity
Ulrich Schreiner wrote: hi, im using a 64 bit fedora7 system with a quad-core processor to host multiple virtual machines. my current kernel is: Linux testserver 2.6.22.1-27.fc7 #1 SMP Tue Jul 17 17:19:58 EDT 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux (now there is a 2.6.22.1-33.fc7 to

Re: [kvm-devel] kvm very slow

2007-08-01 Thread Ulrich Schreiner
dmesg|grep kvm SELinux: initialized (dev kvmfs, type kvmfs), uses genfs_contexts kvm: emulating exchange as write now booting into a F7 image, after the system is ready (and in idle): top PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND 14917 root 20 0 332m 71m

[kvm-devel] kvm very slow

2007-07-31 Thread Ulrich Schreiner
hi, im using a 64 bit fedora7 system with a quad-core processor to host multiple virtual machines. my current kernel is: Linux testserver 2.6.22.1-27.fc7 #1 SMP Tue Jul 17 17:19:58 EDT 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux (now there is a 2.6.22.1-33.fc7 to download, but i think it is not the