WARNING - OLD ARCHIVES

This is an archived copy of the Xen.org mailing list, which we have preserved to ensure that existing links to archives are not broken. The live archive, which contains the latest emails, can be found at http://lists.xen.org/
   
 
 
Xen 
 
Home Products Support Community News
 
   
 

xen-users

Re: [Xen-users] Xen3.3 / Xen3.4 CPU soft lockups under pvops 2.6.31/2.6.

To: Yann Cezard <yann.cezard@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Xen3.3 / Xen3.4 CPU soft lockups under pvops 2.6.31/2.6.32
From: Pim van Riezen <pi+lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 10:21:43 +0200
Cc: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Delivery-date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 01:23:12 -0700
Envelope-to: www-data@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <4BC6C141.3040403@xxxxxxxxxxx>
List-help: <mailto:xen-users-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=help>
List-id: Xen user discussion <xen-users.lists.xensource.com>
List-post: <mailto:xen-users@lists.xensource.com>
List-subscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/mailman/listinfo/xen-users>, <mailto:xen-users-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=subscribe>
List-unsubscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/mailman/listinfo/xen-users>, <mailto:xen-users-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=unsubscribe>
References: <1ADBF117-435F-4191-AB36-B43A373B4CE9@xxxxxxxxxxxx> <4BC6C141.3040403@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sender: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Yann,

On Apr 15, 2010, at 9:33 , Yann Cezard wrote:

> After searching a lot, I thought that my CPU softlock problems (which
> sometimes
> make my VMs freezing) was perhaps related to the xen clocksource, so I
> decided
> to give a try to this :
> 
> http://wiki.debian.org/Xen#A.27clocksource.2BAC8-0.3ATimewentbackwards.27

Giving that a shot now. Sounds plausibly related, also with regards to my 
seeing timing-related wackiness inside the domUs where this happens.

> I also read in xen-devel that you are using FC LUNs for storage, I also
> use that,
> perhaps you will want to have a look at the "Interrupt handling in Xen"
> message
> that was post on this list yesterday, by defaults my domain-0 was doing
> all its
> interrupts (network and HBA) on the same CPU, which is probably some kind
> of bottleneck under heavy load.

CentOS5 installs irqbalance by default.

Thanks for your suggestions.

Kind regards,
Pim van Riezen


_______________________________________________
Xen-users mailing list
Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users