Re: [vfio-users] threadripper slowness

2019-08-14 Thread Rich Mingin (vfio-users)
You need to tweak NUMA because your previous CPU was not NUMA, and your new one is. Having the VM running on some CPU cores on one physical package, but accessing ram that's attached to other CPU cores on a different package can cause a lot of overhead. You want to avoid that. On Wed, Aug 14,

Re: [vfio-users] threadripper slowness

2019-08-14 Thread Roger Lawhorn
Just a note: So far to resolve this I have had to use the kernel boot line options "rcu_nocbs=0-23 processor.max_cstate=5". This fixes a known hardware bug in ryzen cpus that leads to constant crashing in linux. I also compiled qemu 4.1.0-rc4. Though it seems better I still suffer severe lag