I didn't some tests against the release.
Basically, it works well, and no any new regressions has been introduced.
The booting speed of windows is also much faster.
But I still failed to boot 64bit smp XP and 2k3.
And after run a series of tests, I found a defunct qemu process.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ps aux|grep qemu
root 12645 0.0 0.0 60284 720 pts/7 S+ 22:30 0:00 grep qemu
root 20656 0.3 0.0 0 0 ? Zl 20:37 0:20
[qemu-system-x86] <defunct>
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I checked the log, it happened when creating 64bit vista.
If run the test case separately, the issue will not happen.
I also noticed some kernel message printed on console
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Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Mon Oct 29 20:38:07 2007 ...
vt-dp8 kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------
Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Mon Oct 29 20:38:07 2007 ...
vt-dp8 kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------
Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Mon Oct 29 20:38:07 2007 ...
vt-dp8 kernel: invalid opcode: 0000 [1] SMP
Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Mon Oct 29 20:38:07 2007 ...
vt-dp8 kernel: invalid opcode: 0000 [1] SMP
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1. boot four 32-bit guest in parallel PASS
2. boot four 64-bit guest in parallel PASS
3. boot 4G 64-bit guest FAIL
4. boot 4G pae guest PASS
5. boot 32-bit linux and 32 bit windows guest in parallel PASS
6. boot 32-bit guest with 1500M memory PASS
7. boot 64-bit guest with 1500M memory PASS
8. boot 32-bit guest with 256M memory PASS
9. boot 64-bit guest with 256M memory PASS
10. boot two 32-bit windows xp in parallel PASS
11. boot four 32-bit different guest in para PASS
12. save/restore 64-bit linux guests FAIL
13. save/restore 32-bit linux guests FAIL
14. boot 32-bit SMP windows 2003 with ACPI enabled PASS
15. boot 32bit SMP Windows 2000 with ACPI enabled FAIL
16. boot 32-bit SMP Windows xp with ACPI enabled FAIL
17. boot 32-bit Windows 2000 without ACPI PASS
18. boot 64-bit Windows xp with ACPI enabled PASS
19. boot 32-bit Windows xp without ACPI PASS
20. boot 64-bit vista FAIL
21. kernel build in 32-bit linux guest OS PASS
22. kernel build in 64-bit linux guest OS PASS
23. LTP on SMP 32-bit linux guest OS PASS
24. LTP on SMP 64-bit linux guest OS PASS
25. boot 64-bit guests with ACPI enabled PASS
26. boot 32-bit x-server PASS
27. boot 64-bit SMP windows XP with ACPI enabled FAIL
28. boot 64-bit SMP windows 2003 with ACPI enabled FAIL
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Avi Kivity
>Sent: 2007年10月26日 1:24
>To: kvm-devel
>Subject: [kvm-devel] [RFT] kvm with Windows optimization
>
>This is a request for testing of an experimental kvm feature that
>dramatically accelerates some Windows releases (when running with the
>ACPI HAL, and especially with guest SMP). The feature detects accesses
>by the guest to the Task Priority Register (TPR) and patches them at
>runtime to a kvm-friendly code snipped that is provided by the BIOS.
>
>The upshot of all that is that
>http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/Windows_ACPI_Workaround is no longer
>required, and Windows SMP no longer runs like a dog; it's quite snappy
>from my very limited testing.
>
>Please download the test release from
>http://people.qumranet.com/avi/tpr-opt-1.tar.gz and give it a spin.
>Once it has received some exposure, I'll merge it into mainline.
>
>Credit for the original idea is due to Ben Serebrin.
>
>--
>error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
>
>
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