Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:40:32 +0300 | From | Avi Kivity <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/9] rework KVM mmu_shrink() code |
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On 06/16/2010 06:03 PM, Dave Hansen wrote: > On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 11:38 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > >> On 06/15/2010 04:55 PM, Dave Hansen wrote: >> >>> These seem to boot and run fine. I'm running about 40 VMs at >>> once, while doing "echo 3> /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches", and >>> killing/restarting VMs constantly. >>> >>> >> Will drop_caches actually shrink the kvm caches too? If so we probably >> need to add that to autotest since it's a really good stress test for >> the mmu. >> > I'm completely sure.
Yes, easily seen from the code as well.
> I crashed my machines several times this way > during testing. >
Hopefully only with your patches applied?
I'll try to run autotest from time to time with drop_caches running in the background. Looks like an excellent way to stress out the mmu.
-- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
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