Re: porting fixes regarding kvm-clock and lost irqs to stable qemu-kvm 0.12.4

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Am 04.06.2010 um 17:31 schrieb Marcelo Tosatti:

> On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 05:13:30PM +0200, Peter Lieven wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I would like to get latest stable qemu-kvm (0.12.4) to a usable state
>> regarding live-migration.
>> 
>> Problems are fixed in git, but there is so much new stuff that has not
>> extensively tested and therefore I would like to stay at 0.12.4 at
>> the moment.
>> 
>> Therefore I would appreciate your help regarding 2 bugs:
>> 
>> a) -cpu xxx,-kvmclock doesn't work in 0.12.4. It started working first
>> after applying a patchset from Avi that is not even in git yet. What
>> needs to be done to get it working in 0.12.4 ?
> 
> You want to disable kvmclock? -no-kvmclock kernel option.
> 

i am afraid it is not, at least the last git i tested some days ago.
it's still crashing with kvm-clock.

i was looking for a generic way to disable it in the hypervisor
without the need to touch every guests kernel commandline.
this would be easy revertible once its all working as expected.

> Note migration should be working fine since kvm.git commit 
> afbcf7ab8d1bc8c2d04792f6d9e786e0adeb328d.

would it be easy to backport this to stable? hw/msix.c is looking quite different than
that of 0.12.4. 

> 
>> b) There is a bug in 0.12.4 which leads to lost irqs. It was reported
>> appearing in virtio_blk (#584131) and e1000 (#585113). It is finally
>> fixed in GIT. Can someone give me a hint with commit fixed this?
> 
> c3f8f61157625d0bb5bfc135047573de48fdc675.
> 
thanks

> 

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