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Date:   Fri, 1 Sep 2023 15:24:31 +0300
From:   Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
To:     Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Cc:     Marc Haber <mh+linux-kernel@zugschlus.de>,
        Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: Linux 6.5 speed regression, boot VERY slow with anything systemd
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* Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> [230831 22:07]:
> On Tue, Aug 29, 2023, Marc Haber wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 10:14:23AM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > > On Tue, Aug 29, 2023, Marc Haber wrote:
> > > > Both come from virt-manager, so if the XML helps more, I'll happy to
> > > > post that as well.
> > > 
> > > Those command lines are quite different, e.g. the Intel one has two
> > > serial ports versus one for the AMD VM.
> > 
> > Indeed? I virt-manager, I don't see a second serial port. In either case,
> > only the one showing up in the VM as ttyS0 is being used. But thanks for
> > making me look, I discovered that the machine on the Intel host still
> > used emulated SCSI instead of VirtIO für the main disk. I changed that.
> > 
> > >Unless Tony jumps in with an
> > > idea, I would try massaging either the good or bad VM's QEMU
> > > invocation, e.g. see if you can get the AMD VM to "pass" by pulling in
> > > stuff from the Intel VM, or get the Intel VM to fail by making its
> > > command line look more like the AMD VM.
> > 
> > In Virt-Manager, both machines don't look THAT different tbh. I verified
> > the XML and the differences are not big at all.
> > 
> > Do you want me to try different vCPU types? Currently the VM is set to
> > "Opteron_G3", would you recommend a different vCPU for the host having a
> > "AMD GX-412TC SOC" host CPU?
> 
> I would be surprised if using a different vCPU type fixed anything, but it's not
> impossible that it could help.  In general, unless someone from the serial driver
> side spots an issue, fixing whatever the bug is will likely require a reproducer,
> which in turn likely means narrowing down what exactly is unique about your AMD
> setup.  In other words, if you have cycles to spare, anything you can do to help
> isolate the problem would be appreciated.

Yes two somewhat minimal qemu command lines for working and failing test
case sure would help to debug this.

Regards,

Tony