Re: [PATCH v2 01/11] kexec: introduce kexec_ops struct

2012-11-23 Thread Jan Beulich
On 22.11.12 at 18:37, H. Peter Anvin h...@zytor.com wrote: I actually talked to Ian Jackson at LCE, and mentioned among other things the bogosity of requiring a PUD page for three-level paging in Linux -- a bogosity which has spread from Xen into native. It's a page wasted for no good

Re: [PATCHv4] virtio-spec: virtio network device RFS support

2012-11-23 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 01:17:36PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote: ... specifying the number of the last transmit and receive queue that is going to be used; thus out of transmitq0..transmitqn and receiveq0..receiveqn where n=virtqueue_pairs will be used. In this description, looks like n+1

Re: [PATCH v2 01/11] kexec: introduce kexec_ops struct

2012-11-23 Thread Daniel Kiper
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 09:53:37AM +, Jan Beulich wrote: On 23.11.12 at 02:56, Andrew Cooper andrew.coop...@citrix.com wrote: On 23/11/2012 01:38, H. Peter Anvin wrote: I still don't really get why it can't be isolated from dom0, which would make more sense to me, even for a Xen crash.

Re: [PATCH v2 01/11] kexec: introduce kexec_ops struct

2012-11-23 Thread Jan Beulich
On 23.11.12 at 11:37, Daniel Kiper daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 09:53:37AM +, Jan Beulich wrote: On 23.11.12 at 02:56, Andrew Cooper andrew.coop...@citrix.com wrote: On 23/11/2012 01:38, H. Peter Anvin wrote: I still don't really get why it can't be isolated

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 01/11] kexec: introduce kexec_ops struct

2012-11-23 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2012-11-23 at 10:37 +, Daniel Kiper wrote: On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 09:53:37AM +, Jan Beulich wrote: On 23.11.12 at 02:56, Andrew Cooper andrew.coop...@citrix.com wrote: The crash region (as specified by crashkernel= on the Xen command line) is isolated from dom0. [...]

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 01/11] kexec: introduce kexec_ops struct

2012-11-23 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2012-11-23 at 09:56 +, Jan Beulich wrote: On 22.11.12 at 18:37, H. Peter Anvin h...@zytor.com wrote: I actually talked to Ian Jackson at LCE, and mentioned among other That was me actually (this happens surprisingly often ;-)). things the bogosity of requiring a PUD page for

Re: [PATCH v2 01/11] kexec: introduce kexec_ops struct

2012-11-23 Thread Daniel Kiper
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 10:51:55AM +, Jan Beulich wrote: On 23.11.12 at 11:37, Daniel Kiper daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 09:53:37AM +, Jan Beulich wrote: On 23.11.12 at 02:56, Andrew Cooper andrew.coop...@citrix.com wrote: On 23/11/2012 01:38, H. Peter

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 01/11] kexec: introduce kexec_ops struct

2012-11-23 Thread Daniel Kiper
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 10:51:08AM +, Ian Campbell wrote: On Fri, 2012-11-23 at 10:37 +, Daniel Kiper wrote: On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 09:53:37AM +, Jan Beulich wrote: On 23.11.12 at 02:56, Andrew Cooper andrew.coop...@citrix.com wrote: The crash region (as specified by

[PATCHv5] virtio-spec: virtio network device RFS support

2012-11-23 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
Add RFS support to virtio network device. Add a new feature flag VIRTIO_NET_F_RFS for this feature, a new configuration field max_virtqueue_pairs to detect supported number of virtqueues as well as a new command VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_RFS to program packet steering for unidirectional protocols. ---