From owner-freebsd-virtualization@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 22 18:38:42 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C925CA96 for ; Thu, 22 May 2014 18:38:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.digiware.nl (smtp.digiware.nl [31.223.170.169]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 876B92E94 for ; Thu, 22 May 2014 18:38:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rack1.digiware.nl (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.digiware.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B2391534D1; Thu, 22 May 2014 20:38:38 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at digiware.nl Received: from smtp.digiware.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by rack1.digiware.nl (rack1.digiware.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id kKKgU8fi_Y2p; Thu, 22 May 2014 20:38:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [IPv6:2001:4cb8:3:1:8c97:b457:abcf:a887] (unknown [IPv6:2001:4cb8:3:1:8c97:b457:abcf:a887]) by smtp.digiware.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98BBE153434; Thu, 22 May 2014 20:38:36 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <537E4425.2030804@digiware.nl> Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 20:38:29 +0200 From: Willem Jan Withagen Organization: Digiware Management b.v. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nils Beyer , freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bhyve on AMD, linux and high load References: <537E16FE.4070309@digiware.nl> <20140522162447.3A5F08AE@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20140522162447.3A5F08AE@hub.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussion of various virtualization techniques FreeBSD supports." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 18:38:42 -0000 On 2014-05-22 18:24, Nils Beyer wrote: > Hi Willem, > > Willem Jan Withagen wrote: >> [...] >> With the new kernel, that is no longer the case. On a idle vm the CPU >> load is like 6-7%.... >> >> At the moment I'm running: >> linux-image-3.13.0-24-generic_3.13.0-24.46_amd64 > > Now, that looks promising. > > Is that with or without your own bhyve-/SVM-patches? If that's with your own > patches, have you already integrated Anish's patches in them? I've started building a linux kernel like over a week ago.... So that is with my patches on the "basic" bhyve-svm. I've just completed merging and patching with Anish patches... ONce that seems to run for my freebsd vm's, I'll start merging my patches. And hope that it still works. And best would be that the vlapic stuff gives a extra bit of speed, because we're not quite there yet. I'll let you know how I fare --WjW