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Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 2/7] Enable I/O thread and VNC threads by de
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Edgar E. Iglesias |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 2/7] Enable I/O thread and VNC threads by default |
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Mon, 7 Feb 2011 21:47:12 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) |
On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 08:12:55AM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:34:53AM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 10:17:41AM +0100, Edgar E. Iglesias wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 04:28:48PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > > > On 01/24/2011 03:00 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > > > > Leave the disable options for now to help with testing but these will
> > > > > be removed
> > > > > once we're confident in the thread implementations.
> > > > >
> > > > > Disabled code bit rots. These have been in tree long enough that we
> > > > > need to
> > > > > either commit to making them work or just remove them entirely.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > I/O thread disables icount apparently.
> > > >
> > > > I'm not really sure why. Marcelo, do you know the reason
> > > > qemu_calculate_timeout returns a fixed value in the I/O thread
> > > > regardless of icount?
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > The following commit hopefully fixed that issue.
> > >
> > > commit 225d02cd1a34d5d87e8acefbf8e244a5d12f5f8c
> > > Author: Edgar E. Iglesias <address@hidden>
> > > Date: Sun Jan 23 04:44:51 2011 +0100
> > >
> > > Avoid deadlock whith iothread and icount
> > >
> > > When using the iothread together with icount, make sure the
> > > qemu_icount counter makes forward progress when the vcpu is
> > > idle to avoid deadlocks.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Edgar E. Iglesias <address@hidden>
> > >
> > > See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2011-01/msg01602.html
> > > for more info.
> > >
> > > One more thing I didn't mention on the email-thread or on IRC is
> > > that last time I checked, qemu with io-thread was performing
> > > significantly slower than non io-thread builds. That was with
> > > TCG emulation (not kvm). Somewhere between 5 - 10% slower, IIRC.
>
> Can you recall what was the test ?
Hi, didn't see this until now..
IIRC, the test was booting a CRIS linux guest.
Cheers
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 2/7] Enable I/O thread and VNC threads by default, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 2/7] Enable I/O thread and VNC threads by default, Aurelien Jarno, 2011/02/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 2/7] Enable I/O thread and VNC threads by default, Blue Swirl, 2011/02/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/7] Enable I/O thread and VNC threads by default, Stefan Weil, 2011/02/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/7] Enable I/O thread and VNC threads by default, Paolo Bonzini, 2011/02/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/7] Enable I/O thread and VNC threads by default, Paolo Bonzini, 2011/02/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/7] Enable I/O thread and VNC threads by default, Stefan Weil, 2011/02/10
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 2/7] Enable I/O thread and VNC threads by default, Paolo Bonzini, 2011/02/08
Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 2/7] Enable I/O thread and VNC threads by default, Aurelien Jarno, 2011/02/07
Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 2/7] Enable I/O thread and VNC threads by default, Scott Wood, 2011/02/07
Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 2/7] Enable I/O thread and VNC threads by default, Edgar E. Iglesias, 2011/02/07
Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 2/7] Enable I/O thread and VNC threads by default,
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