<snip> > Thanks, looks good. Are there more failures? > > Paolo > Paolo, Thanks for applying those patches! I now only see the two failures on my machine: model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2697 v3 @ 2.60GHz I'm running with the tip of kvm master: 0ac625df43ce9d085d4ff54c1f739611f4308b13 (Merge tag 'kvm-s390-20140825') sudo ./x86-run x86/apic.flat -smp 2 -cpu qemu64,+x2apic,+tsc-deadline | grep -v PASS qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -device pc-testdev -device isa-debug-exit,iobase=0xf4,iosize=0x4 -display none -serial stdio -device pci-testdev -kernel x86/apic.flat -smp 2 -cpu qemu64,+x2apic,+tsc-deadline enabling apic enabling apic paging enabled cr0 = 80010011 cr3 = 7fff000 cr4 = 20 apic version: 1050014 x2apic enabled FAIL: tsc deadline timer clearing tsc deadline timer enabled SUMMARY: 16 tests, 1 unexpected failures Return value from qemu: 3 sudo ./x86-run x86/kvmclock_test.flat -smp 2 --append "10000000 `date +%s`" qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -device pc-testdev -device isa-debug-exit,iobase=0xf4,iosize=0x4 -display none -serial stdio -device pci-testdev -kernel x86/kvmclock_test.flat -smp 2 --append 10000000 1409174399 enabling apic enabling apic kvm-clock: cpu 0, msr 0x:44d4c0 kvm-clock: cpu 0, msr 0x:44d4c0 Wallclock test, threshold 5 Seconds get from host: 1409174399 Seconds get from kvmclock: 1409173176 Offset: -1223 offset too large! Check the stability of raw cycle ... Worst warp -1222831419357 Total vcpus: 2 Test loops: 10000000 Total warps: 1 Total stalls: 0 Worst warp: -1222831419357 Raw cycle is not stable Monotonic cycle test: Worst warp -1219118621614 Total vcpus: 2 Test loops: 10000000 Total warps: 1 Total stalls: 0 Worst warp: -1219118621614 Measure the performance of raw cycle ... Total vcpus: 2 Test loops: 10000000 TSC cycles: 1065145046 Measure the performance of adjusted cycle ... Total vcpus: 2 Test loops: 10000000 TSC cycles: 1126981511 Return value from qemu: 3 Let me know if anything comes to mind. I can also look more deeply into these failures. Thanks, --chris j arges -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html