Re: [Qemu-devel] High CPU Usage with Linux 2.6.24 and Windows XP Guest (but not with 2.6.23)

2008-03-09 Thread Mulyadi Santosa
Hi.. On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 3:19 AM, Christian MICHON <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/9/08, Steve Fosdick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have found a single config change that causes the problem. With: > > > > # CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS is not set > > > > kqemu works correctly, whereas wit

Re: [Qemu-devel] High CPU Usage with Linux 2.6.24 and Windows XP Guest (but not with 2.6.23)

2008-03-09 Thread Christian MICHON
On 3/9/08, Steve Fosdick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have found a single config change that causes the problem. With: > > # CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS is not set > > kqemu works correctly, whereas with: > > CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS=y > > the problem appears. Any idea why that causes a problem? Is it

Re: [Qemu-devel] High CPU Usage with Linux 2.6.24 and Windows XP Guest (but not with 2.6.23)

2008-03-08 Thread Dor Laor
On Sun, 2008-03-09 at 01:14 +, Steve Fosdick wrote: > > kqemu works correctly, whereas with: > > CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS=y > > the problem appears. Any idea why that causes a problem? Is it a > bug? > > Anyway, at least for now I have a solution. Thanks for your help. While I don't know

Re: [Qemu-devel] High CPU Usage with Linux 2.6.24 and Windows XP Guest (but not with 2.6.23)

2008-03-08 Thread Steve Fosdick
On Fri, 7 Mar 2008 10:58:39 +0100 "Christian MICHON" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > it's really a lot of differences... could you find a minimal kernel > config (which could be almost identical for 2.6.23 and 2.6.24) showing > the slowdown? I have found a single config change that causes the proble

Re: [Qemu-devel] High CPU Usage with Linux 2.6.24 and Windows XP Guest (but not with 2.6.23)

2008-03-08 Thread Ivan Kalvachev
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Steve Fosdick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guys, > > If I run Linux kernel 2.6.24.3 and then start a qemu virtual machine running > Windows XP as the guest operating system the CPU usage is high, always close > to 100%, and the virtual machine slower than normal.

Re: [Qemu-devel] High CPU Usage with Linux 2.6.24 and Windows XP Guest (but not with 2.6.23)

2008-03-07 Thread Christian MICHON
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 3:31 PM, Steve Fosdick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, the compiler appear to be the same basic version of gcc, but slightly > different build. I will try recompiling the 2.6.23 kernel with the latest > compiler to see if the problem then occurs. ok > Regarding the ke

Re: [Qemu-devel] High CPU Usage with Linux 2.6.24 and Windows XP Guest (but not with 2.6.23)

2008-03-06 Thread Christian MICHON
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Steve Fosdick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The hardware is an AMD64 processor and 1GB RAM. > > The problem with 2.6.24 seems only to occur with kqemu and also appears in > dependant of whether dynamic ticks is enabled. A couple of timings should > illustrate th

[Qemu-devel] High CPU Usage with Linux 2.6.24 and Windows XP Guest (but not with 2.6.23)

2008-03-06 Thread Steve Fosdick
Guys, If I run Linux kernel 2.6.24.3 and then start a qemu virtual machine running Windows XP as the guest operating system the CPU usage is high, always close to 100%, and the virtual machine slower than normal. Once I am able to log in to windows, task manager shows the CPU usage permanently