Whups, should note that I don’t see the CPU utilization issues, just the clock 
source errors. This is on a 3.3.4 install with centos 6.4 guests.

On Apr 4, 2014, at 6:19 PM, Darrell Budic <[email protected]> wrote:

> I see this on some guests as well, possibly relating to moving between hosts 
> with the same family of CPU but different absolute CPU speeds?
> 
>   -Darrell
> 
> On Apr 4, 2014, at 8:33 AM, Michal Skrivanek <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> this is more for the KVM folks I suppose…can you get the qemu process 
>> cmdline please?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> michal
>> 
>> On 3 Apr 2014, at 12:13, Markus Stockhausen wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> we have an up to date ovirt 3.4 installation. Inside we are running SLES11 
>>> SP3
>>> VMs (Kernel 3.0.76-0.11). After live migration of these VMs they all of a 
>>> sudden
>>> do not react any longer and CPU usage of the VM goes to 100%.
>>> 
>>> We identified kvm-clock source to be the culprit and therefore switched to 
>>> another
>>> clocksource. We ended with hpet but are not happy with that as our inital 
>>> goal
>>> was to use the more simple designed TSC clocksoure. 
>>> 
>>> The reason behind that is the question I have for you experts.
>>> 
>>> Our hosts all have the constant_tsc CPU flag available. Just to mention 
>>> these
>>> are not identical hosts. We have a mix of Xeon 5500 and 5600 machines. E.G.
>>> [root@colovn01 ~]# cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep constant_tsc | wc -l
>>> 8
>>> 
>>> When we start the VM the client sees TSC as available clocksource:
>>> 
>>> colvm53:~ # cat 
>>> /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/available_clocksource
>>> kvm-clock tsc hpet acpi_pm
>>> 
>>> After the first live migration to another host that also has constant_tsc 
>>> (see above)
>>> that flag is lost inside the VM.
>>> 
>>> colvm53:~ # cat 
>>> /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/available_clocksource
>>> kvm-clock hpet acpi_pm
>>> 
>>> Any ideas?
>>> 
>>> Markus
>>> 
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