Re: KVM: Softlockups in guests while running kernbench

From: Avi Kivity
Date: Thu May 10 2012 - 05:22:26 EST


On 05/10/2012 11:15 AM, Nikunj A Dadhania wrote:
> I am running a 3.4.0-rc4 based kernel(commit: af3a3ab2), guest config
> attached.
>
> During my tests, I saw few softlockups inside the guests while running
> kernbench inside the guest. I can reproduce this repeatedly.
>
> Test Setup:
>
> - Create 4 VMs (8vcpu, 1GB RAM)
> - Run kernbench inside each guests (kernbench -f -M -H -o 16) in parallel
>
>

How overcommitted are you? What does the host hardware look like? Is
there any load on the host?

The traces themselves always point a couple of instructions after
interrupts are enabled. Can you post a few more?

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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