Re: KVM lock contention on 48 core AMD machine

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On 03/21/2011 07:12 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
Le lundi 21 mars 2011 Ã 19:02 +0200, Avi Kivity a Ãcrit :

>  Any ideas on how to fix it?  We could pre-allocate IDs and batch them in
>  per-cpu caches, but it seems like a lot of work.
>

Hmm, I dont know what syscalls kvm do, but even a timer_gettime() has to
lock this idr_lock.

It's qemu playing with posix timers, nothing to do with kvm per se.

Sounds crazy, and should be fixed in kernel code, not kvm ;)


Oh yes, I couldn't fix it in kvm if I wanted to (and I don't want to).

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