>>> On 19.01.11 at 19:55, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jer...@goop.org> wrote: > On 01/19/2011 10:39 AM, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: >> I have tested quite extensively with booting a 16-vcpu guest (on a 16-pcpu > host) >> and running kernel compine (with 32-threads). Without this patch, I had >> difficulty booting/shutting-down successfully (it would hang mid-way). > > Sounds good. But I like to test with "make -j 100-200" to really give > things a workout.
Hmm, in my experience, heavily over-committing CPUs (e.g. a domain with double or more the vCPU-s that the system has pCPU-s, or the pCPU-s the domain is allowed to run on) is a much better test for eventual problems in the spin lock code paths. Jan _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
