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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>
Cc: "David S. Ahern" <daahern@cisco.com>,
	Felix Leimbach <felix.leimbach@gmx.net>,
	avi@redhat.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Subject: Re: strange guest slowness after some time
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 10:19:14 +0930	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200904081019.14768.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49DA1D75.6000604@wpkg.org>

On Tuesday 07 April 2009 00:49:17 Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> Tomasz Chmielewski schrieb:
> 
> > As I mentioned, it was using virtio net.
> > 
> > Guests running with e1000 (and virtio_blk) don't have this problem.
> 
> Also, virtio_console seem to be affected by this "slowness" issue.

I'm pretty sure this is different.  Older virtio_console code ignored
interrupts and polled, and use a heuristic to back off on polling (this was
because we used the generic "hvc" infrastructure which hacked support).

You'll find a delay on the first keystroke after idle, but none on the
second.

Hope that helps,
Rusty.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-08  0:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-07 15:47 strange guest slowness after some time Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-03-07 16:41 ` Johannes Baumann
2009-03-07 16:54   ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-03-09  9:18 ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-03-09  9:28   ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-03-19 13:03     ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-03-09  9:55 ` Avi Kivity
2009-03-09 10:22   ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-03-09 10:25     ` Avi Kivity
2009-03-09 10:31       ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-03-09 10:37         ` Avi Kivity
2009-03-09 10:54           ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-03-09 11:37             ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-03-09 12:14               ` Avi Kivity
2009-03-09 12:52                 ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-03-15 15:41                   ` Avi Kivity
2009-03-15 16:14                     ` Avi Kivity
2009-03-15 13:19       ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-03-17 10:47         ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-03-17 11:16           ` Avi Kivity
2009-03-17 11:25             ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-03-17 15:32               ` Felix Leimbach
2009-03-17 15:43                 ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-03-17 17:01                   ` Felix Leimbach
2009-03-17 17:05                     ` Avi Kivity
2009-03-17 18:49                       ` Felix Leimbach
2009-03-18  6:36                         ` Avi Kivity
2009-03-18  7:57                           ` Felix Leimbach
2009-03-18  8:48                             ` Avi Kivity
2009-03-18  9:08                               ` Felix Leimbach
2009-03-17 17:38                     ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-06-08 11:02                       ` Felix Leimbach
2009-06-16 14:26                         ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-03-31  8:50                     ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-04-01  4:22                       ` David S. Ahern
2009-04-01  6:21                         ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-04-06 15:19                           ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-04-08  0:49                             ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2009-04-08  5:45                               ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-05-26 11:49                               ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-05-26 11:55                                 ` Avi Kivity
2009-05-26 12:05                                   ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-05-26 12:10                                     ` Avi Kivity
2009-05-26 14:07                                       ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-05-26 14:35                                         ` Avi Kivity
2009-05-28 14:58                                           ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-05-31  8:43                                             ` Avi Kivity
2009-03-17 15:52                 ` Avi Kivity
2009-03-17 16:12                   ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-03-17 17:05                     ` Felix Leimbach
2009-03-17 17:10                       ` Avi Kivity
2009-03-17 17:43                         ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-03-17 18:55                           ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-03-17 19:04                             ` Felix Leimbach
2009-03-17 19:24                               ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-03-17 20:14                                 ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-03-17 22:34                                   ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-03-17 23:02                                     ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-03-18  6:29                                 ` Avi Kivity
2009-03-19  4:59                                   ` Rusty Russell
2009-03-19  5:22                                     ` David S. Ahern
2009-03-19  6:08                                       ` David S. Ahern
2009-03-19  8:03                                         ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-03-19 14:11                                           ` David S. Ahern
2009-03-17 18:57                         ` Felix Leimbach
2009-03-18  5:54                         ` Felix Leimbach
2009-03-17 16:27                 ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-03-17 17:14                   ` Felix Leimbach
2009-03-17 17:19                     ` Avi Kivity
2009-03-17 17:34                     ` Tomasz Chmielewski

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