Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] KVM: Dynamic Halt-Polling

2015-08-29 Thread Peter Kieser
On 2015-08-29 4:55 PM, Wanpeng Li wrote: On 8/30/15 6:26 AM, Peter Kieser wrote: Thanks, Wanpeng. Applied this to Linux 3.18 and seeing much higher CPU usage (200%) for qemu 2.4.0 process on a Windows 10 x64 guest. qemu parameters: Thanks for the report. If Paolo's patch &quo

Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] KVM: Dynamic Halt-Polling

2015-08-29 Thread Peter Kieser
I revert patch, qemu shows 17% CPU usage on host. Thoughts? -Peter On 2015-08-29 3:21 PM, Wanpeng Li wrote: Hi Peter, On 8/30/15 5:18 AM, Peter Kieser wrote: Hi Wanpeng, Do I need to set any module parameters to use your patch, or should halt_poll_ns automatically tune with just your patch

Re: Poor performance with virtio network driver on windows 2008 R2 on KVM

2014-06-29 Thread Peter Kieser
Did you come up with anything? -Peter On 2014-05-15 11:01 AM, JR wrote: Hi Peter, Thanks for the advise. How does the intel driver perform? Wirespeed range? (Or, did you make the change more to fix the freezing rather than to up the performance?) Thanks JR On 5/15/2014 1:27 PM, Peter K

Re: Unable to establish TCP sessions between guests using virtio-net on Linux 3.12 and above

2014-06-27 Thread Peter Kieser
On 2014-06-27 12:19 PM, Peter Kieser wrote: Hello, Kernel versions tested: 3.13, 3.14, 3.15 Related debian bug report: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=738863 I'm not sure if this is a problem specific to openvswitch or KVM. I have a network setup where I hav

Unable to establish TCP sessions between guests using virtio-net on Linux 3.12 and above

2014-06-27 Thread Peter Kieser
Hello, Kernel versions tested: 3.13, 3.14, 3.15 Related debian bug report: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=738863 I'm not sure if this is a problem specific to openvswitch or KVM. I have a network setup where I have one openvswitch bridge setup, with various ports with VLAN

Re: Poor performance with virtio network driver on windows 2008 R2 on KVM

2014-05-15 Thread Peter Kieser
On 2014-05-14 8:37 AM, JR wrote: Greetings all, Though I don't believe that this is KVM problem per se, I'm seeing very poor network performance when using windows 2008R2 KVM instances with the virtio driver when on a 10G network. iperf results show linux VMs getting close to wire speeds, whil

Re: windows 2008 "falling asleep" under KVM

2013-07-17 Thread Peter Kieser
Does the host system support constant_tsc? Check /proc/cpuinfo. It could be that too many ticks are being lost in the guest. -Peter On 2013-07-15 4:54 AM, Nikola Ciprich wrote: Hi, It is sound and _hardware_ not sure why MS separated sound from HW :) OK, I'll check it Try it and see if it