Re: [PATCH kvm-unit-tests v3 11/11] s390x: add sieve test

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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



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