Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: 2.6.24 says serial8250: too much work for irq4 a lot.

2008-03-11 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 11:26:06AM +, Paul Brook wrote: On Sunday 10 February 2008, Blue Swirl wrote: On 2/9/08, H. Peter Anvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Blue Swirl wrote: If you look at the patch, there are no timing dependencies; the only parameter is the depth of the virtual

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: 2.6.24 says serial8250: too much work for irq4 a lot.

2008-02-10 Thread Blue Swirl
On 2/9/08, H. Peter Anvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Blue Swirl wrote: If you look at the patch, there are no timing dependencies; the only parameter is the depth of the virtual queue. The exhaustion is completely controlled by target OS access patterns. Thanks, this clarified the

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: 2.6.24 says serial8250: too much work for irq4 a lot.

2008-02-10 Thread Paul Brook
On Sunday 10 February 2008, Blue Swirl wrote: On 2/9/08, H. Peter Anvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Blue Swirl wrote: If you look at the patch, there are no timing dependencies; the only parameter is the depth of the virtual queue. The exhaustion is completely controlled by target OS

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: 2.6.24 says serial8250: too much work for irq4 a lot.

2008-02-09 Thread Blue Swirl
On 2/9/08, H. Peter Anvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Blue Swirl wrote: On 2/9/08, Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a patch Peter Anvin wrote so the serial I/O doesn't flood the kernel. The patch looks OK, but the throttling should benefit all devices, as discussed here:

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: 2.6.24 says serial8250: too much work for irq4 a lot.

2008-02-09 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Blue Swirl wrote: If you look at the patch, there are no timing dependencies; the only parameter is the depth of the virtual queue. The exhaustion is completely controlled by target OS access patterns. Thanks, this clarified the difference. But I'll rephrase my original comment: The patch

[Qemu-devel] Re: 2.6.24 says serial8250: too much work for irq4 a lot.

2008-02-08 Thread Rob Landley
Here's a patch Peter Anvin wrote so the serial I/O doesn't flood the kernel. Here's the thread on linux-kernel aboout it: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/5/401 Rob On Thursday 07 February 2008 15:19:39 you wrote: Rob Landley wrote: Specifically, qemu isn't paravirtualized, it's fully

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: 2.6.24 says serial8250: too much work for irq4 a lot.

2008-02-08 Thread Blue Swirl
On 2/9/08, Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a patch Peter Anvin wrote so the serial I/O doesn't flood the kernel. The patch looks OK, but the throttling should benefit all devices, as discussed here: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2007-12/msg00283.html

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: 2.6.24 says serial8250: too much work for irq4 a lot.

2008-02-08 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Blue Swirl wrote: On 2/9/08, Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a patch Peter Anvin wrote so the serial I/O doesn't flood the kernel. The patch looks OK, but the throttling should benefit all devices, as discussed here:

[Qemu-devel] Re: 2.6.24 says serial8250: too much work for irq4 a lot.

2008-02-05 Thread Rob Landley
On Tuesday 05 February 2008 15:07:27 H. Peter Anvin wrote: Rob Landley wrote: When running a 2.6.24 kernel built for x86-64 under qemu via serial console, doing CPU-intensive things that also produce a lot of output (such as compiling software) tends to produce the error message in the