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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:40:32 +0300 From: Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com> To: Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> CC: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/9] rework KVM mmu_shrink() code On 06/16/2010 06:03 PM, Dave Hansen wrote: > On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 11:38 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > >> On 06/15/2010 04:55 PM, Dave Hansen wrote: >> >>> These seem to boot and run fine. I'm running about 40 VMs at >>> once, while doing "echo 3> /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches", and >>> killing/restarting VMs constantly. >>> >>> >> Will drop_caches actually shrink the kvm caches too? If so we probably >> need to add that to autotest since it's a really good stress test for >> the mmu. >> > I'm completely sure. Yes, easily seen from the code as well. > I crashed my machines several times this way > during testing. > Hopefully only with your patches applied? I'll try to run autotest from time to time with drop_caches running in the background. Looks like an excellent way to stress out the mmu. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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