Hi Ard,

This is the email with the analysis and the flag
setting required for SMP to work with SMM enabled for
IA32/X64 QEMU.

https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/message/102364


I tried latest version of QEMU earlier in the Summer
and did not see any improvements.

Mike


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ard Biesheuvel <a...@kernel.org>
> Sent: Thursday, August 3, 2023 9:54 AM
> To: devel@edk2.groups.io; mikub...@linux.microsoft.com
> Cc: ostef...@redhat.com; Feng, Bob C <bob.c.f...@intel.com>; Gerd
> Hoffmann <kra...@redhat.com>; Yao, Jiewen <jiewen....@intel.com>;
> Justen, Jordan L <jordan.l.jus...@intel.com>; Gao, Liming
> <gaolim...@byosoft.com.cn>; Kinney, Michael D
> <michael.d.kin...@intel.com>; Rebecca Cran <rebe...@bsdio.com>; Sean
> Brogan <sean.bro...@microsoft.com>; Chen, Christine
> <yuwei.c...@intel.com>; Laszlo Ersek <ler...@redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] [PATCH v1 0/4] Use Qemu 8 in CI and enable SMP
> in tests
> 
> On Thu, 3 Aug 2023 at 16:37, Michael Kubacki
> <mikub...@linux.microsoft.com> wrote:
> >
> > For the series.
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Michael Kubacki <michael.kuba...@microsoft.com>
> >
> 
> Thanks
> 
> I've pushed this to the CI but Platform_CI OVMF_IA32X64_FULL_DEBUG
> keeps timing out for me
> 
> https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/pull/4718
> 
> Might it help if we restrict SMP to a subset of the builds? And would
> it help if we added "--accel=tcg,thread=multi" ?
> 
> 
> 
> > On 8/3/2023 7:44 AM, Oliver Steffen wrote:
> > > REF: https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4324
> > > PR:  https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/pull/4711
> > >
> > > This series switches the OVMF CI jobs on Windows to a recent Qemu
> > > version and re-enables SMP in the Qemu "Run to shell" CI jobs.
> > > The Qemu tests run a little bit slower in SMP mode and sometimes
> > > hit the time limit of 2 minutes, thus this limit is increased to 4
> > > minutes.
> > >
> > > Together with 81cb0371f9db ("CI: Use latest image for Linux jobs
> (Qemu
> > > 8, gcc 12)" this series is sufficient to close Bug 4324.
> > >
> > >
> > > Gerd Hoffmann (1):
> > >    OvmfPkg/PlatformCI: Boot OVMF in SMP mode.
> > >
> > > Oliver Steffen (3):
> > >    OvmfPkg/PlatformCI: Use recent Qemu on Windows
> > >    OvmfPkg/PlatformCI VS2019: Disable workaround for cpuhp bugfix
> > >    CI: Increase time limit of "Run to shell" task to 4 minutes
> > >
> > >   .../templates/platform-build-run-steps.yml          |  2 +-
> > >   .../PlatformCI/.azurepipelines/Windows-VS2019.yml   |  4 ++--
> > >   OvmfPkg/PlatformCI/PlatformBuildLib.py              | 13 +--------
> ----
> > >   3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
> > >
> >
> >
> > 
> >
> >


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