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Date:      Wed, 22 Aug 2018 15:04:27 +0200
From:      Support SimpleRezo <simplerezo@gmail.com>
To:        weh@microsoft.com
Cc:        freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [HyperV-2016] urandom performance issue...
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This is happening with Hyper-V Server 2016.
It's seems to not be the same on 2012 version, but the VM was on FreeBSD
10.3, not 11.2.

Regards

--
Clement
SimpleRezo

Le mer. 22 ao=C3=BBt 2018 =C3=A0 11:38, Wei Hu <weh@microsoft.com> a =C3=A9=
crit :

> Have you ever seen the same issue on Hyper-V 2012? What is the Windows
> version what you are running into the issue?
>
> Thanks,
> Wei
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org <
> owner-freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org> On Behalf Of John-Mark Gurney
> Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2018 8:35 AM
> To: Support SimpleRezo <simplerezo@gmail.com>
> Cc: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: [HyperV-2016] urandom performance issue...
>
> Support SimpleRezo wrote this message on Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 19:06 +0200=
:
> > I was figuring a performance issue of a FreeBSD on HyperV, after:
> >   - moving it from an Hyper-V 2012 host to a Hyper-V 2016
> >   - updating to FreeBSD 11.2 (custom kernel, but same issue with
> > GENERIC) After loosing some times because i was thinking about
> > hardware issue (disk controller was my first thought...) and testing
> > with "dd if=3D/dev/urandom"... I discovered this...
> >
> > I ran the following test... and quite surprised by the speed result!
> > $ dd if=3D/dev/urandom of=3D/dev/null bs=3D10M count=3D3
> > 3+0 records in
> > 3+0 records out
> > 31457280 bytes transferred in 27.960431 secs (1125064 bytes/sec) The
> > test was also sometimes "freezing" the Hyper-V host!
> >
> > Looking into "dmesg" i have found this:
> > random: registering fast source Intel Secure Key RNG
> > random: fast provider: "Intel Secure Key RNG"
> >
> > So I rebuilt my KERNEL without "rdrand_rng" (didn't find another way
> > to disable it...)... and performances went back to normal!
> >
> > I think this issue should documented on
> https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fwiki.f=
reebsd.org%2FHyperV&amp;data=3D02%7C01%7Cweh%40microsoft.com%7Cc42c865cb80e=
4ed2c95f08d607c74577%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636704949=
779065690&amp;sdata=3DWaGPCp%2FggDUQMyrk49GAbe8TypqYGdpV2tgTg3sTqvk%3D&amp;=
reserved=3D0
> !
>
> This is likely the same issue as:
>
> https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fbugs.f=
reebsd.org%2Fbugzilla%2Fshow_bug.cgi%3Fid%3D230808&amp;data=3D02%7C01%7Cweh=
%40microsoft.com%7Cc42c865cb80e4ed2c95f08d607c74577%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2=
d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636704949779065690&amp;sdata=3Dnm3oeJoKGlYzD0ZcSPhGCE=
w1rMgbsrGkem69AYA2hoI%3D&amp;reserved=3D0
>
> If you're having troubles w/ the host freezing, this should probably stil=
l
> be investigated as even w/ the excessive locking, it should never freeze.
>
> --
>   John-Mark Gurney                              Voice: +1 415 225 5579
>
>      "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not."
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