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{ The synchronize_rcu() is a time consuming operation, the unpstream kernel
still have some issue, the KVM_RUN ioctl will take more then 10ms when
resume the VM after migration. }
The upstream kernel does not have such issue, only the rhel kernel has. Forgive my neglect.
Liang
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Li, Liang Z
> > Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2015 11:47 AM
> > To: 'Paolo Bonzini'; 'Juan Quintela'; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Cc: Zhang, Yang Z; kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: about the time consuming kvm_vcpu_ioctl issue in rhel kernel
> >
> > Hi Paolo & Juan,
> >
> > I found some of the kvm_vcpu_ioctl operation takes about more than
> > 10ms with the 3.10.0-229.el7.x86_64 kernel, which prolong the VM
> > service downtime when doing live migration about 20~30ms.
> > This happened when doing the KVM_KVMCLOCK_CTRL ioctl. It's worse if
> > more VCPUs used by guest(4VPUs in my test). The upstream kernel does
> > not have this issue because of the patch 7a72f7a140bfd3, maybe this
> > patch should be backported to the el7 kernel.
> >
> > Liang
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