[ kvm-Bugs-2826486 ] Clock speed in FreeBSD

2009-09-11 Thread SourceForge.net
Bugs item #2826486, was opened at 2009-07-24 11:16 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by rmdir You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailatid=893831aid=2826486group_id=180599 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment

[KVM-AUTOTEST PATCH v2 1/3] KVM test: use a better source for random numbers

2009-09-11 Thread Michael Goldish
Use random.SystemRandom() (which uses /dev/urandom) in kvm_utils.generate_random_string(). Currently, when running multiple jobs in parallel, the generated strings occasionally collide, and this is very bad. Also, don't seed the random number generator in kvm.py. This is not necessary and is

[KVM-AUTOTEST PATCH v2 2/3] [RFC] KVM test: kvm_tests.cfg.sample: add some scheduler params

2009-09-11 Thread Michael Goldish
(Difference from previous version: make sure timedrift is executed alone. This should probably be a temporary solution until we find a better one, like making sure timedrift is not executed in parallel to itself, while allowing it to run in parallel to other tests.) used_cpus denotes the number

[KVM-AUTOTEST PATCH v2 3/3] [RFC] KVM test: client parallel test execution

2009-09-11 Thread Michael Goldish
(Difference from previous version: make sure tests that share dependencies, but do not necessarily depend on each other, run in the same pipeline.) This patch adds a control.parallel file that runs several test execution pipelines in parallel. The number of pipelines is set to the number of CPUs

RE: [PATCHv5 3/3] vhost_net: a kernel-level virtio server

2009-09-11 Thread Xin, Xiaohui
Michael, We are very interested in your patch and want to have a try with it. I have collected your 3 patches in kernel side and 4 patches in queue side. The patches are listed here: PATCHv5-1-3-mm-export-use_mm-unuse_mm-to-modules.patch PATCHv5-2-3-mm-reduce-atomic-use-on-use_mm-fast-path.patch

kvm scaling question

2009-09-11 Thread Bruce Rogers
I am wondering if anyone has investigated how well kvm scales when supporting many guests, or many vcpus or both. I'll do some investigations into the per vm memory overhead and play with bumping the max vcpu limit way beyond 16, but hopefully someone can comment on issues such as locking

Re: kvm scaling question

2009-09-11 Thread Javier Guerra
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Bruce Rogers brog...@novell.com wrote: Also, when I did a simple experiment with vcpu overcommitment, I was surprised how quickly performance suffered (just bringing a Linux vm up), since I would have assumed the additional vcpus would have been halted the

Re: [PATCHv5 3/3] vhost_net: a kernel-level virtio server

2009-09-11 Thread Gregory Haskins
Ira W. Snyder wrote: On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 01:15:37PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 11:39:45AM -0700, Ira W. Snyder wrote: On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 07:07:50PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: What it is: vhost net is a character device that can be used to reduce

Re: [PATCH 01/23] Pass PVR in sregs

2009-09-11 Thread Hollis Blanchard
Hi Avi, would you apply this patch? Looks like the corresponding qemu patch went in a while ago, so the qemu build has been broken for some time. Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard holl...@us.ibm.com -- Hollis Blanchard IBM Linux Technology Center On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 15:29 +0200, Alexander Graf