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RE: VTI hitting the blocked state (was RE: [PATCH][RESEND]RE:[Xen-ia64-d

To: "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: VTI hitting the blocked state (was RE: [PATCH][RESEND]RE:[Xen-ia64-devel] [PATCH 0/6] Add fullevtchnmechanism for xen/ia64)
From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 20:25:50 -0600
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On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 10:04 +0800, Tian, Kevin wrote:
> 
> VTI network has not been tested aggressively and thus your observation 
> is new and we'll take a look.
> 
> I'll try again by following your steps. As a confirmation required from you:
>       - Simple dom0+domVTI can trigger the block issue. DomU can 
> accelerate

Correct

>       - dom0 and domVTI are running on different processors.

Correct, I disabled threads and had dom0 running on cpu0 and domVTI
running on cpu3 (w/ affinity of any cpu. ie it was the default
placement)
>       - can that happen steadily? If not, how about the frequency.

Yes, happened every time I exercised domVTI.

>       - which test case do you propose to try? 'wget' or KB. Previously I 
> always try with wget.

wget hit it much faster, within a few tries pulling a 512MB file.  The
kernel build ran for maybe 30 minutes (very roughly).  Thanks,

        Alex

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Alex Williamson                             HP Linux & Open Source Lab


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