One issue I see for some time is that even when I stop a Linux KVM guest using libvirt
it still sometimes uses a lot of CPU time.
According to strace it loops polling on KVM_IRQ_LINE_STATUS
I see it with various qemu versions, both FC25, FC26, OpenSUSE Leap 42.1/2
IIRC old enough KVM didn't have this problem, at least I didn't notice it.
My workaround is to kill -STOP the qemu process too, but is there a
better fix?
-Andi
strace of a stopped qemu using ~18% CPU time of a core.
write(7, "\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8) = 8
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=1118693, tv_nsec=583125997}) = 0
gettimeofday({tv_sec=1508275611, tv_usec=558425}, NULL) = 0
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=1118693, tv_nsec=583171115}) = 0
ppoll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN}, {fd=5, events=POLLIN}, {fd=7,
events=POLLIN}, {fd=8, events=POLLIN}, {fd=13, events=POLLIN}, {fd=15,
events=POLLIN}, {fd=24, events=POLLIN}], 7, {tv_sec=0, tv_nsec=0}, NULL,
8) = 1 ([{fd=7, revents=POLLIN}], left {tv_sec=0, tv_nsec=0})
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=1118693, tv_nsec=583227127}) = 0
gettimeofday({tv_sec=1508275611, tv_usec=558526}, NULL) = 0
ioctl(12, KVM_IRQ_LINE_STATUS, 0x7ffc15ce8f30) = 0
gettimeofday({tv_sec=1508275611, tv_usec=558569}, NULL) = 0
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=1118693, tv_nsec=583313870}) = 0
gettimeofday({tv_sec=1508275611, tv_usec=558612}, NULL) = 0
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=1118693, tv_nsec=583357101}) = 0
ppoll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN}, {fd=5, events=POLLIN}, {fd=7,
events=POLLIN}, {fd=8, events=POLLIN}, {fd=13, events=POLLIN}, {fd=15,
events=POLLIN}, {fd=24, events=POLLIN}], 7, {tv_sec=0, tv_nsec=0}, NULL,
8) = 1 ([{fd=7, revents=POLLIN}], left {tv_sec=0, tv_nsec=0})
read(7, "\3\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 512) = 8
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=1118693, tv_nsec=583433228}) = 0
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=1118693, tv_nsec=583455717}) = 0
