Re: [vfio-users] Eliminate Mini Stutter in "Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt" on top of KVM/VFIO

2016-03-15 Thread Okky Hendriansyah
On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 12:33 PM, Alex Williamson < alex.l.william...@gmail.com> wrote: > ... > You didn't say what the original settings were that you were coming from. > For preempt, I'd guess you were probably using PREEMPT_NONE. The config > option descriptions are actually pretty good here:

Re: [vfio-users] Eliminate Mini Stutter in "Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt" on top of KVM/VFIO

2016-03-15 Thread Alex Williamson
On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 10:44 PM, Okky Hendriansyah wrote: > On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 11:37 AM, Alex Williamson < > alex.l.william...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> .. >> The Fedora kernel already sets all of these, however regarding 3) the >> advice from nbhs is to use hugetlbfs and not rely on transpare

Re: [vfio-users] Eliminate Mini Stutter in "Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt" on top of KVM/VFIO

2016-03-15 Thread Okky Hendriansyah
On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 11:37 AM, Alex Williamson < alex.l.william...@gmail.com> wrote: > .. > The Fedora kernel already sets all of these, however regarding 3) the > advice from nbhs is to use hugetlbfs and not rely on transparent > hugepages. Transparent hugepages is not compatible with device

Re: [vfio-users] Eliminate Mini Stutter in "Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt" on top of KVM/VFIO

2016-03-15 Thread Alex Williamson
On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 10:25 PM, Okky Hendriansyah wrote: > Hi All, > > I experienced a very noticeable mini stutters here and there when playing > "Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt" on my Windows 10 VM with OVMF and MSI enabled. I > was using the official linux-lts-4.1.19-1 from Arch Linux repository.

[vfio-users] Eliminate Mini Stutter in "Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt" on top of KVM/VFIO

2016-03-15 Thread Okky Hendriansyah
Hi All, I experienced a very noticeable mini stutters here and there when playing "Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt" on my Windows 10 VM with OVMF and MSI enabled. I was using the official linux-lts-4.1.19-1 from Arch Linux repository. Apparently after changing these 3 kernel configurations and recompile

Re: [vfio-users] [help] 2 identical GPUs in Arch [UPDATE]

2016-03-15 Thread Garland Key
By going through the process in Fedora, I found out that there was actually no problem with your method for arch - it actually worked. It turns out that windows iso was corrupt. Once I started using Fedora, I decided that I'd stick with it. On Tue, Mar 15, 2016, 10:33 AM sL1pKn07 SpinFlo wrote:

Re: [vfio-users] two nvidia cards, one for the host with nvidia module

2016-03-15 Thread thibaut noah
See previous message for a fix to your problem 2016-03-15 15:03 GMT+01:00 : > Am 2016-03-07 16:55, schrieb Alex Williamson: > >> nvidia.ko does not support dynamic unbinding of devices. I've filed a >> bug with them, they closed it wontfix. You need to follow the guides >> to have the VM graphi

Re: [vfio-users] [help] 2 identical GPUs in Arch [UPDATE]

2016-03-15 Thread sL1pKn07 SpinFlo
working for me in arch with distro kernel (4.4.1), qemu from alex repo git (input-dev-event branch) and libvirt from git (master) what is your problem with arch? greetings ___ vfio-users mailing list vfio-users@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailma

Re: [vfio-users] two nvidia cards, one for the host with nvidia module

2016-03-15 Thread ddio
Am 2016-03-07 16:55, schrieb Alex Williamson: nvidia.ko does not support dynamic unbinding of devices. I've filed a bug with them, they closed it wontfix. You need to follow the guides to have the VM graphics card bound to pci-stub or vfio-pci directly rather than letting it bind to nvidia. Se

Re: [vfio-users] [help] 2 identical GPUs in Arch [UPDATE]

2016-03-15 Thread Garland Key
Hey everyone, I just wanted to let you know that I'm now successfully using gpu passthrough and it's great! Thanks so much to everyone who took the time to help me out. Unfortunately, I was never able to get it to work on Arch. I decided to give a new distro a try for the first time in 5 years