Re: [Qemu-devel] [RESEND][PATCH 0/3] Fix guest time drift under heavy load.

[Gleb Natapov]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 09:46:12AM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Gleb Natapov wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 09:24:55AM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>   
>>> Gleb Natapov wrote:
>>>     
>>>> On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 10:36:59AM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
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>>>>> Otherwise, I'm curious if you have any insight into where we're  
>>>>> pausing  for 10ms that's causing the missed interrupt?
>>>>>
>>>>>             
>>>> Don't know yet.
>>>>         
>>> What's your full command line?
>>>
>>>     
>> /home/gleb/install/qemu/org/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -hda Windows2003.raw -m 
>> 1024 -net
>> nic,model=rtl8139 -net user -vnc 172.17.10.111:1 -usbdevice tablet
>>   
>
> -usbdevice tablet may be the culprit.  Is the guest doing an significant IO?
>
-usbdevice tablet has nothing to do with it. Qemu misses interrupt even
without this option and with SDL screen it misses them in bunches when
SDL redraws a screen. In case of vnc qemu misses interrupt because of
fsync() call in raw_flush(), or so my instrumentation shows.

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                        Gleb.