On Tuesday 07 April 2009 00:49:17 Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > Tomasz Chmielewski schrieb: > > > As I mentioned, it was using virtio net. > > > > Guests running with e1000 (and virtio_blk) don't have this problem. > > Also, virtio_console seem to be affected by this "slowness" issue. I'm pretty sure this is different. Older virtio_console code ignored interrupts and polled, and use a heuristic to back off on polling (this was because we used the generic "hvc" infrastructure which hacked support). You'll find a delay on the first keystroke after idle, but none on the second. Hope that helps, Rusty. -- 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