Nice, thanks for the update. I checked a few recent logs and agree that the message is gone since 2.9
Some might still encounter slow guests (for other reasons) and trigger the message, but the most common TCG emulation case is solved by this since Artful and later. I think we don't want to backport all the prereqs (I/O thread locking changes) to Xenial that allow to add this change here. ** Also affects: qemu (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: qemu (Ubuntu Bionic) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: qemu (Ubuntu Xenial) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: qemu (Ubuntu Artful) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: qemu (Ubuntu Xenial) Status: New => Won't Fix ** Changed in: qemu (Ubuntu Artful) Status: New => Fix Released ** Changed in: qemu (Ubuntu Bionic) Status: New => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1481272 Title: main-loop: WARNING: I/O thread spun for 1000 iterations Status in QEMU: New Status in qemu package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in qemu source package in Xenial: Won't Fix Status in qemu source package in Artful: Fix Released Status in qemu source package in Bionic: Fix Released Bug description: I compile the latest qemu to launch a VM but the monitor output the "main-loop: WARNING: I/O thread spun for 1000 iterations". # /usr/local/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -name rhel6 -S -no-kvm -m 1024M -realtime mlock=off -smp 1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 -uuid c9dd2a5c-40f2-fd3d-3c54-9cd84f8b9174 -rtc base=utc -drive file=/home/samba-share/ubuntu.img,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,format=qcow2,cache=none -device virtio-blk-pci,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=disk,serial=425618d4-871f-4021-bc5d-bcd7f1b5ca9c,bootindex=0 -vnc :1 -boot menu=on -monitor stdio QEMU 2.3.93 monitor - type 'help' for more information (qemu) c (qemu) main-loop: WARNING: I/O thread spun for 1000 iterations <----------------------- qemu]# git branch -v * master e95edef Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/sstabellini/tags/xen-migration-2.4-tag' into staging To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1481272/+subscriptions