RE: [PATCH] qemu-kvm: Flush icache after dma operations for ia64

Jes Sorensen wrote:
> Zhang, Xiantao wrote:
>> Hi, Jes
>>     Have you verified whether it works for you ?  You may run kernel
>> build in the guest with 4 vcpus,  if it can be done successfully
>> without any error, it should be Okay I think, otherwise, we may need
>> to investigate it further. :) Xiantao  
> 
> Hi Xiantao,
> 
> I was able to run a 16 vCPU guest and build the kernel using make -j
> 16. How quickly would the problem show up for you, on every run, or
> should I run more tests?

Hi Jes, 
 Good news! On my machine, without the patch, smp guest can't build one whole kernel at all. So if you can build it without errors and use it to boot up the guest, I think it should work well.  
Xiantao