Re: [Qemu-devel] CFQ I/O starvation problem triggered by RHEL6.0 KVM guests

2011-09-09 Thread Vivek Goyal
On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 06:00:28PM +0900, Takuya Yoshikawa wrote: [..] > > > > > - Even if there are close cooperators, these queues are merged and they > > are treated as single queue from slice point of view. So cooperating > > queues should be merged and get a single slice instead of star

Re: [Qemu-devel] CFQ I/O starvation problem triggered by RHEL6.0 KVM guests

2011-09-09 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Takuya Yoshikawa wrote: > Vivek Goyal wrote: > >> So you are using both RHEL 6.0 in both host and guest kernel? Can you >> reproduce the same issue with upstream kernels? How easily/frequently >> you can reproduce this with RHEL6.0 host. > > Guests were CentOS6.0.

Re: [Qemu-devel] CFQ I/O starvation problem triggered by RHEL6.0 KVM guests

2011-09-09 Thread Takuya Yoshikawa
Vivek Goyal wrote: > So you are using both RHEL 6.0 in both host and guest kernel? Can you > reproduce the same issue with upstream kernels? How easily/frequently > you can reproduce this with RHEL6.0 host. Guests were CentOS6.0. I have only RHEL6.0 and RHEL6.1 test results now. I want to try s

Re: [Qemu-devel] CFQ I/O starvation problem triggered by RHEL6.0 KVM guests

2011-09-08 Thread Vivek Goyal
On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 06:13:53PM +0900, Takuya Yoshikawa wrote: > This is a report of strange cfq behaviour which seems to be triggered by > QEMU posix aio threads. > > Host environment: > OS: RHEL6.0 KVM/qemu-kvm (with no patch applied) > IO scheduler: cfq (with the default parameters) So