responses in-line...

Rob Miller
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(919)721-3339


On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 8:12 AM Jan Kiszka <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 24.10.19 13:46, Rob Miller wrote:
> > Pls see below
> >
> > Rob Miller
> > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> > (919)721-3339
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 6:25 AM Jan Kiszka <[email protected]
> > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 23.10.19 23:23, Rob Miller via Xenomai wrote:
> >     > Correction, stock images work by removing the enable-kvm and *NOT
> >     *adding
> >     > the -no-hpet QEMU cmdline options.
> >     >
> >     > also latency numbers are crazy with avg being 1678.126 usec w/
> >     worst case
> >     > being 15463.240usec
> >     >
> >     > at this point, I'm not sure which way to go:
> >     >
> >     > 1) do I hunt down issues in HPET failing w/ KVM mode enabled?
> >     > 2) just go to dovetail
> >     > 3) ???
> >
> >     Don't have a the reference image around, but I'm pretty sure it would
> >     work here with QEMU 4300b7c2cd9f3f273804e8cca325842ccb93b1ad (post
> 4.1)
> >     and KVM from 5.3.6. At least a different image is being used like
> that
> >     for ages, and kernel config in xenomai-image is basically derived
> >     from it.
> >
> > RJM>] Will try
> >
> >
> >     For the xenomai-images check, did you use "start-qemu.sh x86" as-is?
> >
> > RJM>] Yes, my 1st failed attempts used unmodified start-qemu.sh x86,
> > then I mod'd the file to remove the -enable-kvm, and it started to work
> > UNTIL also added -no-hpet, then I can't even boot up.
> >
>
> Number of host cores >= number of guest CPUs? If not, reduce -smp in the
> QEMU invocation.
>
RJM>] yup, host has 16 cores whilst guest has 4 (using the stock images).

>
> Oh, and don't expect any kind of determinism in these setups. KVM and
> QEMU are for functional testing only.
>
RJM>] Ah, good to know.

>
> Jan
>

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