[Spice-devel] Running SPICE on PPC64

[Christophe Fergeau]

On Mon, Apr 06, 2015 at 01:29:49PM +0300, Denis Kirjanov wrote:
> On 4/3/15, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 07:11:47PM +0300, Denis Kirjanov wrote:
> >> The rendering between ppc64 server and x86 client works super slow.
> >> Any hints where to look at?
> >
> > Not really no... Is the same VM over VNC slow or not? Is a VM with the
> > exactly the same configuration/QEMU command line running on an x86
> > machine as slow?
> >
> > In the end, did you need many changes in order to get SPICE working on
> > that big-endian box?
> 
> VNC works perfectly well.

What about a VM with exactly the same configuration as the slow one
running on x86? I assume it's not slow?

> No many. Mostly patches on initial connection setup.

Ok, feel free to send them once you feel confident enough about them :)

> What I see is a long delay before calling display_channel_send_item
> with PIPE_ITEM_TYPE_DRAW.
> 
> I see also a lot of display_channel_release_item: not pushed(101) messages.

Could be a hint, I guess there are more big-endia/little-endian bugs. Is
that with QXL or with standard VGA ?

Christophe
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 819 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/spice-devel/attachments/20150407/e7ca20d8/attachment.sig>