On 13/02/2018 18:08, David Hildenbrand wrote: > On 13.02.2018 18:02, David Hildenbrand wrote: >> On 13.02.2018 17:44, Paolo Bonzini wrote: >>> On 13/02/2018 17:26, Christian Borntraeger wrote: >>>>> The test takes fairly long, especially because we only have 128MB of ram >>>>> and allocate 3 times in a row ~100mb of virtual memory. >>>> >>>> Does it make sense to change the memory size in the unittests.cfg file? e.g. via extra_params? >>> >>> The test takes 5 seconds on x86 KVM and about a minute on TCG (lots of >>> TLB misses). Maybe it's an s390-specific bug in the test? >> >> Under TCG: 1m 6,823s >> >> I have to idea how long it takes under LPAR. Right now, I only have a >> z/VM based system available, so we are already using nested >> virtualization (implemented by z/VM). I expect things to be slow :) >> >> Will try to find a LPAR to test with ... >> > > LPAR: 0m 6.552s > z/VM: > 6m > > So I don't think its a BUG. It's really nested virtualization kicking in. Whoa. How does KVM-on-KVM-on-LPAR fare? I'll change the comment to # can take fairly long when KVM is nested inside z/VM Thanks, Paolo