[kvm-devel] Benchmarking warning

2008-01-25 Thread Cam Macdonell

Hi,

I get the following warning in the kernel messages:

kvm: emulating preempt notifiers; do not benchmark on this machine

Is this an accurate warning, should the machine not be used for 
benchmarking KVM? or does it mean don't benchmark other applications on 
the host?

Thanks,
Cam

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Re: [kvm-devel] Benchmarking warning

2008-01-25 Thread Dor Laor

On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 15:20 -0700, Cam Macdonell wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I get the following warning in the kernel messages:
> 
> kvm: emulating preempt notifiers; do not benchmark on this machine
> 
> Is this an accurate warning, should the machine not be used for 

It's accurate.

> benchmarking KVM? or does it mean don't benchmark other applications on 
> the host?
> 

It's when running kvm (it traps every process scheduling).
On newer hosts (2.6.23 >=) the preempt notifiers are integrated and
there is no need tapping the scheduler.

> Thanks,
> Cam
> 
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