linux-kernel - Re: Linux 6.5 speed regression, boot VERY slow with anything systemd related

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Date:   Tue, 29 Aug 2023 08:42:04 -0700
From:   Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
To:     Marc Haber <mh+linux-kernel@...schlus.de>
Cc:     Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux Regressions <regressions@...ts.linux.dev>,
        Linux KVM <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>
Subject: Re: Linux 6.5 speed regression, boot VERY slow with anything systemd related

On Tue, Aug 29, 2023, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 07:53:45AM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > What is different between the bad host(s) and the good host(s)?  E.g. kernel, QEMU,
> 
> The bad host is an APU ("AMD GX-412TC SOC") with 4 GB of RAM, one of the
> good hosts is a "Xeon(R) CPU E3-1246 v3" with 32 GB of RAM.

I don't expect it to help, but can you try booting the bad host with
"spec_rstack_overflow=off"?

> system configuration is from the same ansible playbook, but of course there
> are differences.

Can you capture the QEMU command lines for the good and bad hosts?  KVM doesn't
get directly involved in serial port emulation; if the blamed commit in 6.5 is
triggering unexpected behavior then QEMU is a better starting point than KVM.