CPU time accounting still broken on buildds due to #785557

[Julien Cristau]

On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 19:37:47 +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 10:06:49AM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> 
> > Hello DSA,
> > 
> > I think I pinged you about this a couple of months ago; do you know
> > if deploying the workaround in #785557 is likely to be possible any
> > time soon (to disable steal time: "-cpu qemu64,-kvm_steal_time" in the
> > KVM backend parameters)? It would be great to get this fixed before the
> > perl 5.22 transition which we're planning for the next month or so.
> 
> perl_5.22.0-4 failed again on experimental i386 and 'all' buildds
> because of this issue in QEMU. The #785557 log is a bit long as it
> has all the history, the upstream ticket at
>  https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1494350
> is somewhat more concise. Basically CPU time accounting breaks after
> live migration of QEMU guests. The perl test suite relies on this,
> at least for times(2).
> 
> I'll do another porter upload with the missing binaries, but I really
> think this needs a better fix. DSA: could somebody please look at
> deploying the workaround above?

I've set cpu_type=qemu64,-kvm_steal_time on the ganeti cluster at csail.

Cheers,
Julien
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