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Title:
KVM_EXIT_MMIO has increased in Qemu4.0.0 when compared to Qemu 2.11.0
Status in QEMU:
Opinion
Status in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
I was able to generate trace dump in Qemu for kvm_run_exit event in both QEMU
2.11.0 and QEMU 4.0.0
From the trace i noticed that the number of KVM_KXIT_MMIO calls has increased
alot and is causing delay in testcase execution.
I executed same testcase from Qemu 2.11 and Qemu4.
Inside Virtual machine when using qemu 2.11 testcase got completed in 11
seconds
but the same testcase when executed on Qemu 4.0.0 got executed in 26 seconds.
I did a bit of digging and extracted the kvm_run_exit to figure out whats
going on.
Please find
Stats from Qemu2.11:
KVM_EXIT_UNKNOWN : 0
KVM_EXIT_EXCEPTION : 0
KVM_EXIT_IO : 182513
KVM_EXIT_HYPERCALL : 0
KVM_EXIT_DEBUG : 0
KVM_EXIT_HLT : 0
KVM_EXIT_MMIO : 216701
KVM_EXIT_IRQ_WINDOW_OPEN : 0
KVM_EXIT_SHUTDOWN : 0
KVM_EXIT_FAIL_ENTRY : 0
KVM_EXIT_INTR : 0
KVM_EXIT_SET_TPR : 0
KVM_EXIT_TPR_ACCESS : 0
KVM_EXIT_S390_SIEIC : 0
KVM_EXIT_S390_RESET : 0
KVM_EXIT_DCR : 0
KVM_EXIT_NMI : 0
KVM_EXIT_INTERNAL_ERROR : 0
KVM_EXIT_OSI : 0
KVM_EXIT_PAPR_HCALL : 0
KVM_EXIT_S390_UCONTROL : 0
KVM_EXIT_WATCHDOG : 0
KVM_EXIT_S390_TSCH : 0
KVM_EXIT_EPR : 0
KVM_EXIT_SYSTEM_EVENT : 0
KVM_EXIT_S390_STSI : 0
KVM_EXIT_IOAPIC_EOI : 0
KVM_EXIT_HYPERV : 0
KVM_RUN_EXIT : 399214 (Total in Qemu 2.11 for a
testcase)
Stats For Qemu 4.0.0:
VM_EXIT_UNKNOWN : 0
KVM_EXIT_EXCEPTION : 0
KVM_EXIT_IO : 163729
KVM_EXIT_HYPERCALL : 0
KVM_EXIT_DEBUG : 0
KVM_EXIT_HLT : 0
KVM_EXIT_MMIO : 1094231
KVM_EXIT_IRQ_WINDOW_OPEN : 46
KVM_EXIT_SHUTDOWN : 0
KVM_EXIT_FAIL_ENTRY : 0
KVM_EXIT_INTR : 0
KVM_EXIT_SET_TPR : 0
KVM_EXIT_TPR_ACCESS : 0
KVM_EXIT_S390_SIEIC : 0
KVM_EXIT_S390_RESET : 0
KVM_EXIT_DCR : 0
KVM_EXIT_NMI : 0
KVM_EXIT_INTERNAL_ERROR : 0
KVM_EXIT_OSI : 0
KVM_EXIT_PAPR_HCALL : 0
KVM_EXIT_S390_UCONTROL : 0
KVM_EXIT_WATCHDOG : 0
KVM_EXIT_S390_TSCH : 0
KVM_EXIT_EPR : 0
KVM_EXIT_SYSTEM_EVENT : 0
KVM_EXIT_S390_STSI : 0
KVM_EXIT_IOAPIC_EOI : 464
KVM_EXIT_HYPERV : 0
KVM_RUN_EXIT : 1258470 (Total in qemu 4.0.0 for same
testcase)
From above analysis i found that the number of KVM_EXIT_MMIO has
increased by 4.x.
Could someone from qemu community help me understand as to why the
MMIO exits have increased in qemu4 ?
The results i obtained are after running same testcase.
On Qemu2.11 testcase gets completed in : 11seconds
on Qemu4.11 testcase gets completed in : 26 seconds
VM Qcow2 used in Ubuntu 16.04
VM kernel OS is : 4.4 generic
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