Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hid: Extend the event queue size to 1024

[Dinar Valeev]

On 04/14/2016 06:19 PM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> On Do, 2016-04-14 at 17:29 +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
>> On 04/14/2016 05:17 PM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>>> On Do, 2016-04-14 at 16:25 +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
>>>> We can currently buffer up to 16 events in our event queue for input
>>>> devices. While it sounds like 16 events backlog for everyone should
>>>> be enough, our automated testing tools (OpenQA) manage to easily
>>>> type faster than our guests can handle.
>>> IMO you should fix OpenQA to type slower then.
>>>
>>> Real hardware is made for human typing speeds.  qemu emulates real
>>> hardware.  Typing insane fast is going to cause problems because the
>>> hardware interfaces are not designed for that.
>>>
>>> Note the ps/2 keyboard has only a 16 byte queue too.  Used to be 256
>>> bytes, but that caused problems because this diverges from real hardware
>>> (see commit 2858ab09e6f708e381fc1a1cc87e747a690c4884 for all the
>>> details).
>>>
>>> Note that the generic input code has support for slow typing already
>>> (see qemu_input_event_send_key_delay in ui/input.c).  That queue will
>>> (a) work for all keyboard devices and (b) isn't visible to the guest, so
>>> using that might be a reasonable option if you can't put the delay logic
>>> into OpenQA.  How to you feed the guest with keystrokes?  monitor?  vnc?
>>
>> It used to type via the monitor, but these days everything goes via vnc.
>>
>> Vnc already uses qemu_input_event_send_key_delay today, so I'm not sure 
>> where things fall apart.
> 
> Try a larger delay for starters.
> 
> Possibly OpenQA starts typing before the guest detected the device, in
> that case the delay wouldn't avoid the queue filling up because the
> guest doesn't read it (yet).
This happens randomly.

Yes we use vnc to type into the screen. If we start 10 guests in parallel,
one or two might have keyboard issues.

like we send "zypper lr" the guest receives "zyppe lr"

or "ps -ef | grep bin/X ; echo __wHP > /dev/hvc0" results into "ps -ef | GREP 
BIN?X ; echo __wHP > /dev/hvc0"

openQA types with the same speed on all architectures. however we see problems 
only on aarch64 and POWER due to USB keyboard usage.
> 
> cheers,
>   Gerd
>