[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] [xen-unstable test] 57852: regressions - FAIL
On 08/06/15 13:16, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Mon, 2015-06-08 at 10:27 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: >> On Mon, 2015-06-08 at 10:15 +0100, Jan Beulich wrote: >>>>>> On 08.06.15 at 10:53, <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> That's 6/14 (43%) failure rate on fiano0 and 2/10 (20%) on fiano1. Which >>>> differs form the apparent xen-unstable failure rate. But I wouldn't take >>>> this as evidence that the two systems differ significantly, despite how >>>> the unstable results looked at first glance. >>> So we can basically rule out just one of the hosts being the culprit; >>> it's either both or our software. Considering that (again at the >>> example of the recent 4.2 flight) the guest is apparently waiting for >>> a timer (or other) interrupt (on a HLT instruction), this is very likely >>> interrupt delivery related, yet (as said before, albeit wrongly for >>> 4.3) 4.2 doesn't have APICV support yet (4.3 only lack the option >>> to disable it), so it can't be that (alone). >>> >>> Looking at the hardware - are fiano[01], in terms of CPU and >>> chipset, perhaps the newest or oldest in the pool? (I'm trying to >>> make myself a picture of what debugging options we have.) >> I don't know much about the hardware in the pool other than what can be >> gathered from the serial and dmesg logs. >> >> http://logs.test-lab.xenproject.org/osstest/logs/58028/test-amd64-amd64-xl-qemuu-win7-amd64/info.html >> >> From the serial log and this: >> >> Jun 6 12:09:27.089020 (XEN) VMX: Supported advanced features: >> Jun 6 12:09:27.089052 (XEN) - APIC MMIO access virtualisation >> Jun 6 12:09:27.097051 (XEN) - APIC TPR shadow >> Jun 6 12:09:27.097088 (XEN) - Extended Page Tables (EPT) >> Jun 6 12:09:27.097118 (XEN) - Virtual-Processor Identifiers (VPID) >> Jun 6 12:09:27.105066 (XEN) - Virtual NMI >> Jun 6 12:09:27.105100 (XEN) - MSR direct-access bitmap >> Jun 6 12:09:27.105130 (XEN) - Unrestricted Guest > Running with no-apicv seems to have disabled these three: > >> Jun 6 12:09:27.113269 (XEN) - APIC Register Virtualization >> Jun 6 12:09:27.113290 (XEN) - Virtual Interrupt Delivery >> Jun 6 12:09:27.113328 (XEN) - Posted Interrupt Processing > Is that expected? Yes - The first is APICV itself, and the further two are dependent features. ~Andrew > > The adhoc run passed, but that's not statistically significant. > > Ian. > _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
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