Re: [PATCH 16/16 v6] PCI: document the new PCI boot parameters

2008-11-07 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 03:50:34PM +0800, Zhao, Yu wrote: Greg KH wrote: On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 11:40:21AM +0800, Zhao, Yu wrote: Greg KH wrote: On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 10:37:55AM +0800, Zhao, Yu wrote: Greg KH wrote: On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 04:45:31PM +0800, Yu Zhao wrote:

Re: [PATCH 16/16 v6] PCI: document the new PCI boot parameters

2008-11-07 Thread Zhao, Yu
Greg KH wrote: On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 03:50:34PM +0800, Zhao, Yu wrote: Greg KH wrote: On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 11:40:21AM +0800, Zhao, Yu wrote: Greg KH wrote: On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 10:37:55AM +0800, Zhao, Yu wrote: Greg KH wrote: This seems like a big problem. How are we going to know

Re: [PATCH 16/16 v6] PCI: document the new PCI boot parameters

2008-11-07 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 04:17:02PM +0800, Zhao, Yu wrote: Well, to do it correctly you are going to have to tell the driver to shut itself down, and reinitialize itself. Turns out, that doesn't really work for disk and network devices without dropping the connection (well, network devices

Re: [PATCH 16/16 v6] PCI: document the new PCI boot parameters

2008-11-07 Thread Zhao, Yu
Greg KH wrote: On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 04:17:02PM +0800, Zhao, Yu wrote: Well, to do it correctly you are going to have to tell the driver to shut itself down, and reinitialize itself. Turns out, that doesn't really work for disk and network devices without dropping the connection (well,

Re: git repository for SR-IOV development?

2008-11-07 Thread Yu Zhao
Hello Lance, Thanks for your interest in SR-IOV. As Greg said we can't have a git tree for the change, but you are welcome to ask any question here and I also will keep you informed if there is any update on the SR-IOV patches. Thanks, Yu Greg KH wrote: On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 11:58:25AM

Re: [patch 0/4] [RFC] Another proportional weight IO controller

2008-11-07 Thread Vivek Goyal
On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 03:07:57PM -0800, Nauman Rafique wrote: It seems that approaches with two level scheduling (DM-IOBand or this patch set on top and another scheduler at elevator) will have the possibility of undesirable interactions (see issues listed at the end of the second patch).

Re: [patch 1/4] io controller: documentation

2008-11-07 Thread Vivek Goyal
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 11:32:09AM +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: On Thu, 06 Nov 2008 10:30:23 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +ISSUES +== +- IO controller can buffer the bios if suffcient tokens were not available + at the time of bio submission. Once the tokens are available,

Re: [patch 2/4] io controller: biocgroup implementation

2008-11-07 Thread Vivek Goyal
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 11:50:30AM +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: On Thu, 06 Nov 2008 10:30:24 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: o biocgroup functionality. o Implemented new controller bio o Most of it picked from dm-ioband biocgroup implementation patches. page_cgroup

Re: [patch 3/4] io controller: Core IO controller implementation logic

2008-11-07 Thread Vivek Goyal
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 12:21:45PM +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: On Thu, 06 Nov 2008 10:30:25 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: o Core IO controller implementation Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2 comments after a quick look. - I don't recommend generic work

Re: [PATCH 0/16 v6] PCI: Linux kernel SR-IOV support

2008-11-07 Thread Andi Kleen
Anthony Liguori [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What we would rather do in KVM, is have the VFs appear in the host as standard network devices. We would then like to back our existing PV driver to this VF directly bypassing the host networking stack. A key feature here is being able to fill the

Re: [PATCH 0/16 v6] PCI: Linux kernel SR-IOV support

2008-11-07 Thread Yu Zhao
While we are arguing what the software model the SR-IOV should be, let me ask two simple questions first: 1, What does the SR-IOV looks like? 2, Why do we need to support it? I'm sure people have different understandings from their own view points. No one is wrong, but, please don't make thing

Re: [patch 0/4] [RFC] Another proportional weight IO controller

2008-11-07 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 11:41 +1100, Dave Chinner wrote: On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 06:11:27PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 11:57 -0500, Rik van Riel wrote: Peter Zijlstra wrote: The only real issue I can see is with linear volumes, but those are stupid anyway -

Re: [PATCH 0/16 v6] PCI: Linux kernel SR-IOV support

2008-11-07 Thread Yu Zhao
Anthony Liguori wrote: Matthew Wilcox wrote: [Anna, can you fix your word-wrapping please? Your lines appear to be infinitely long which is most unpleasant to reply to] On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 05:38:16PM +, Fischer, Anna wrote: Where would the VF drivers have to be associated? On

RE: [PATCH 0/16 v6] PCI: Linux kernel SR-IOV support

2008-11-07 Thread Leonid Grossman
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Re: [patch 0/4] [RFC] Another proportional weight IO controller

2008-11-07 Thread Vivek Goyal
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 10:36:50AM +0800, Gui Jianfeng wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, If you are not already tired of so many io controller implementations, here is another one. This is a very eary very crude implementation to get early feedback to see if this approach makes

Re: [PATCH 0/16 v6] PCI: Linux kernel SR-IOV support

2008-11-07 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 11:17:40PM +0800, Yu Zhao wrote: While we are arguing what the software model the SR-IOV should be, let me ask two simple questions first: 1, What does the SR-IOV looks like? 2, Why do we need to support it? I don't think we need to worry about those questions, as we

Re: [PATCH 16/16 v6] PCI: document the new PCI boot parameters

2008-11-07 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 04:35:47PM +0800, Zhao, Yu wrote: Greg KH wrote: On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 04:17:02PM +0800, Zhao, Yu wrote: Well, to do it correctly you are going to have to tell the driver to shut itself down, and reinitialize itself. Turns out, that doesn't really work for disk and

Re: [patch 0/4] [RFC] Another proportional weight IO controller

2008-11-07 Thread Nauman Rafique
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 6:19 AM, Vivek Goyal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 03:07:57PM -0800, Nauman Rafique wrote: It seems that approaches with two level scheduling (DM-IOBand or this patch set on top and another scheduler at elevator) will have the possibility of

Re: [patch 3/4] io controller: Core IO controller implementationlogic

2008-11-07 Thread KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Vivek Goyal said: On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 12:21:45PM +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: On Thu, 06 Nov 2008 10:30:25 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: o Core IO controller implementation Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2 comments after a quick look. - I don't recommend

Re: [PATCH 16/16 v6] PCI: document the new PCI boot parameters

2008-11-07 Thread Yu Zhao
Greg KH wrote: On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 04:35:47PM +0800, Zhao, Yu wrote: Greg KH wrote: On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 04:17:02PM +0800, Zhao, Yu wrote: Well, to do it correctly you are going to have to tell the driver to shut itself down, and reinitialize itself. Turns out, that doesn't really

Re: [PATCH 16/16 v6] PCI: document the new PCI boot parameters

2008-11-07 Thread Greg KH
On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 01:00:29PM +0800, Yu Zhao wrote: Greg KH wrote: On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 04:35:47PM +0800, Zhao, Yu wrote: Greg KH wrote: On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 04:17:02PM +0800, Zhao, Yu wrote: Well, to do it correctly you are going to have to tell the driver to shut itself down,

Re: [PATCH 16/16 v6] PCI: document the new PCI boot parameters

2008-11-07 Thread Greg KH
On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 01:50:20PM +0800, freevanx wrote: Dear all, I'm glad to hear this. In fact, I'm developing for BIOS area. This feature is very useful when your system have one or more PCI/PCIe hotplug slot. Generally, BIOS reserve amount of resource for empty hotplug slot by

Re: [PATCH 16/16 v6] PCI: document the new PCI boot parameters

2008-11-07 Thread Yu Zhao
Greg KH wrote: On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 01:00:29PM +0800, Yu Zhao wrote: Greg KH wrote: On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 04:35:47PM +0800, Zhao, Yu wrote: Greg KH wrote: On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 04:17:02PM +0800, Zhao, Yu wrote: Well, to do it correctly you are going to have to tell the driver to shut