Igor and I coordinated offline and got this code tested on
fully-virtualized XEN.  Thanks a lot, Igor!

--matt

On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 12:20 PM, Igor Kozhukhov <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I have dilos-xen34-dom0 with HVM and PV guests and I’d like to help with
> testing by build and setup new guest.
>
> Could you please let me know scenarios what you are interest to test?
> I have hw with coreI7 - it has less 32 CPU :)
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Igor Kozhukhov
>
> From: illumos-dev <[email protected]>
> Reply-To: Matthew Ahrens <[email protected]>
> Date: Tuesday 30 December 2014 22:45
> To: developer <[email protected]>, illumos-zfs <[email protected]>,
> illumos-dev <[email protected]>
> Subject: [developer] [review request] [XPV test request] 5498 kmem_reap
> does one xcall per page
>
> Review request for 5498 kmem_reap does one xcall per page:
>
> https://reviews.csiden.org/r/150/
>
> The fix is to make the crosscall take an additional parameter which
> (essentially) the number of contiguous pages to unmap.  We use this to do
> one crosscall per slab, rather than one per page. The xcall now tears down
> all the pages used to back the slab (the pages are virtually contiguous).
> The performance benefit is most noticeable when reaping larger caches (e.g.
> 128KB) on machines with many CPUs (e.g. 32).
>
> I would also like to ask for help testing on __xpv (fully paravirtualized
> Xen), as I don't have a setup for this. Build artifacts are available at:
>
> http://mahrens.org/xcall/packages.tgz
>
> http://mahrens.org/xcall/proto.tgz
>
> --matt
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