Re: [PATCH] maintainers: drop Chris Wright from pvops

2017-10-26 Thread Chris Wright
. > > Juergen Gross <jgr...@suse.com> writes: > >> Mails to chr...@sous-sol.org are not deliverable since several months. >> Drop him as PARAVIRT_OPS maintainer. >> >> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgr...@suse.com> Acked-by: Chris Wright <chr...@redhat.c

Re: [PATCH] maintainers: drop Chris Wright from pvops

2017-10-26 Thread Chris Wright
Acked-by: Chris Wright <chr...@redhat.com> ;) thanks, -chris On Oct 26, 2017 7:41 PM, "Rusty Russell" <ru...@rustcorp.com.au> wrote: > Chris CC'd: He wasn't that hard to find. > > (linkedin says he's CTO of RedHat now. I feel like an underachiever!) > &g

List Adminstration Help

2016-04-15 Thread Chris Wright
Hi all, This list is run as a moderated list to minimize spam (gets a decent amount despite filtering). I've tended to this for years, and I'd like to add some folks from community to help so that posts are quickly approved. Please let me know if you'd like to help. thanks, -chris

Virtualization DevRoom at FOSDEM 2013

2012-11-16 Thread Chris Wright
Following on the heels of a successful KVM Forum and oVirt Workshop, FOSDEM will be hosting a Virtualization DevRoom in February. If you've been to FOSDEM before, you know this is about developers and code, not products. Presentation proposals are due by December 16th 2012. The full details are

KVM Forum 2010: videos online [was Re: KVM Forum 2010: presentations online]

2010-10-19 Thread Chris Wright
* Chris Wright (chr...@redhat.com) wrote: We were also able to video the speakers, and will send a note when the videos are available. (and thanks again to Andrew Cathrow for making this happen) I don't think a note went out yet. The videos are available as well. thanks, -chris

KVM Forum 2010: presentations online

2010-08-17 Thread Chris Wright
KVM Forum 2010 was quite a success, many thanks to all who participated! For those who couldn't attend, the presentations are available online now: (thanks to Andrew Cathrow for pushing them all up) http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/KVM_Forum_2010#Presentations We were also able to video the

Re: RFC: Network Plugin Architecture (NPA) for vmxnet3

2010-05-04 Thread Chris Wright
* Pankaj Thakkar (pthak...@vmware.com) wrote: We intend to upgrade the upstreamed vmxnet3 driver to implement NPA so that Linux users can exploit the benefits provided by passthrough devices in a seamless manner while retaining the benefits of virtualization. The document below tries to answer

[PATCH] vhost-net: comment use of invalid fd when setting vhost backend

2009-12-22 Thread Chris Wright
This looks like an error case, but it's just a special case to shutdown the backend. Clarify with a comment. Signed-off-by: Chris Wright chr...@redhat.com --- drivers/vhost/net.c |1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/vhost/net.c b/drivers/vhost/net.c

[PATCH] vhost-net: defer f-private_data until setup succeeds

2009-12-22 Thread Chris Wright
Trivial change, just for readability. The filp is not installed on failure, so the current code is not incorrect (also vhost_dev_init currently has no failure case). This just treats setting f-private_data as something with global scope (sure, true only after fd_install). Signed-off-by: Chris

Re: SCSI driver for VMware's virtual HBA - V6.

2009-10-13 Thread Chris Wright
such devices. Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria akata...@vmware.com Looks in good shape to me. Reviewed-by: Chris Wright chr...@sous-sol.org ___ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org https://lists.linux-foundation.org

Re: [PATCH 2.6.31-rc9] net: VMware virtual Ethernet NIC driver: vmxnet3

2009-09-29 Thread Chris Wright
* Shreyas Bhatewara (sbhatew...@vmware.com) wrote: Some of the features of vmxnet3 are : PCIe 2.0 compliant PCI device: Vendor ID 0x15ad, Device ID 0x07b0 INTx, MSI, MSI-X (25 vectors) interrupts 16 Rx queues, 8 Tx queues Driver doesn't appear to actually support more

Re: Paravirtualization on VMware's Platform [VMI].

2009-09-29 Thread Chris Wright
* Alok Kataria (akata...@vmware.com) wrote: On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 19:25 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: On 09/28/2009 05:45 PM, Alok Kataria wrote: + bool VMI Guest support [will be deprecated soon] + default n This is incorrect use of the word deprecated... it's *already*

Re: Paravirtualization on VMware's Platform [VMI].

2009-09-29 Thread Chris Wright
-by: Chris Wright chr...@sous-sol.org ___ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization

Re: [Pv-drivers] [PATCH 2.6.31-rc9] net: VMware virtual Ethernet NIC driver: vmxnet3

2009-09-29 Thread Chris Wright
* Bhavesh Davda (bhav...@vmware.com) wrote: Hi Chris, Thanks a bunch for your really thorough review! I'll answer some of your questions here. Shreyas can respond to your comments about some of the coding style/comments/etc. in a separate mail. The style is less important at this stage,

Re: [Pv-drivers] [PATCH 2.6.31-rc9] net: VMware virtual Ethernet NIC driver: vmxnet3

2009-09-29 Thread Chris Wright
* Bhavesh Davda (bhav...@vmware.com) wrote: Thanks a bunch for your really thorough review! I'll answer some of your questions here. Shreyas can respond to your comments about some of the coding style/comments/etc. in a separate mail. The style is less important at this stage, but

Re: [RFC] Virtual Machine Device Queues(VMDq) support on KVM

2009-09-21 Thread Chris Wright
* Stephen Hemminger (shemmin...@vyatta.com) wrote: On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:37:22 +0930 Rusty Russell ru...@rustcorp.com.au wrote: Actually this framework can apply to traditional network adapters which have just one tx/rx queue pair. And applications using the same user/kernel

Re: [PATCH] xen: remove driver_data direct access of struct device from more drivers

2009-05-04 Thread Chris Wright
. These functions have been around since the beginning, so are backwards compatible with all older kernel versions. Cc: xen-de...@lists.xensource.com Cc: virtualizat...@lists.osdl.org Cc: Chris Wright chr...@sous-sol.org Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge jer...@xensource.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Re: [PATCH] xen block: remove driver_data direct access of struct device

2009-04-30 Thread Chris Wright
the beginning, so are backwards compatible with all older kernel versions. Cc: xen-de...@lists.xensource.com Cc: virtualizat...@lists.osdl.org Cc: Chris Wright chr...@sous-sol.org Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge jer...@xensource.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gre...@suse.de Acked-by: Chris Wright chr

Re: [PATCH] xen block: remove driver_data direct access of struct device

2009-04-30 Thread Chris Wright
* Greg KH (g...@kroah.com) wrote: On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 03:35:35PM -0700, Chris Wright wrote: * Greg Kroah-Hartman (gre...@suse.de) wrote: In the near future, the driver core is going to not allow direct access to the driver_data pointer in struct device. Instead, the functions

Re: 2.6.29 git, resume from ram broken on thinkpad

2009-04-03 Thread Chris Wright
* Ingo Molnar (mi...@elte.hu) wrote: * Chris Wright chr...@sous-sol.org wrote: * Arkadiusz Miskiewicz (a.miskiew...@gmail.com) wrote: On Friday 03 of April 2009, Chris Wright wrote: * Arkadiusz Miskiewicz (a.miskiew...@gmail.com) wrote: What about

Re: 2.6.29 git, resume from ram broken on thinkpad

2009-04-02 Thread Chris Wright
* Arkadiusz Miskiewicz (a.miskiew...@gmail.com) wrote: What about 9ea09af3bd3090e8349ca2899ca2011bd94cda85 ? stop_machine: introduce stop_machine_create/destroy. That is later fixed in a0e280e0f33f6c859a235fb69a875ed8f3420388. Can you please verify if 2.6.29 works for you? Your bisects are

Re: 2.6.29 git, resume from ram broken on thinkpad

2009-04-01 Thread Chris Wright
* Arkadiusz Miskiewicz (a.miskiew...@gmail.com) wrote: and this as bad commit: 7f7ace0cda64c99599c23785f8979a072e118058 is first bad commit Does it make any difference if you roll fwd a couple commits to: 802bf931f2688ad125b73db597ce63cc842fb27a That fixes a possible problem with the

Re: 2.6.29 git, resume from ram broken on thinkpad

2009-04-01 Thread Chris Wright
* Rafael J. Wysocki (r...@sisk.pl) wrote: This may be caused by the recent PM changes. Can you please test if commit 8efb8c76fcdccf5050c0ea059dac392789baaff2 is fine? I just tested on my t400, it's not[1]. See same symptoms as Arkadiusz. Seems as if it responds to initial apci event, I see

Re: 2.6.29 git, resume from ram broken on thinkpad

2009-04-01 Thread Chris Wright
* Rafael J. Wysocki (r...@sisk.pl) wrote: On Wednesday 01 April 2009, Chris Wright wrote: * Rafael J. Wysocki (r...@sisk.pl) wrote: This may be caused by the recent PM changes. Can you please test if commit 8efb8c76fcdccf5050c0ea059dac392789baaff2 is fine? I just tested on my

Re: 2.6.29 git, resume from ram broken on thinkpad

2009-04-01 Thread Chris Wright
* Rafael J. Wysocki (r...@sisk.pl) wrote: Sorry for the misunderstanding, I thought the breakage might be introduced between 15f7176eb1cccec0a332541285ee752b935c1c85 and 0a0c5168df270a50e3518e4f12bddb31f8f5f38f, so I thought it would be a good idea to verify if

[patch 42/45] lguest: wire up pte_update/pte_update_defer

2009-03-31 Thread Chris Wright
in a 64MB guest causes reproducible pagetable corruption. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell ru...@rustcorp.com.au Cc: jer...@xensource.com Cc: virtualizat...@lists.osdl.org Cc: sta...@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Chris Wright chr...@sous-sol.org --- arch/x86/lguest/boot.c | 10 +- 1 file

Re: [PATCH 1/2] virtio: block: set max_segment_size and max_sectors to infinite.

2008-11-26 Thread Chris Wright
* Rusty Russell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: + /* No real sector limit. */ + blk_queue_max_sectors(vblk-disk-queue, -1U); + Is that actually legitimate? I think it'd still work out, but seems odd, e.g. all the spots that do: q-max_hw_sectors 9 will just toss the upper bits...

Re: [SR-IOV driver example 2/3] PF driver: integrate with SR-IOV core

2008-11-26 Thread Chris Wright
* Greg KH ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: +static int +igb_virtual(struct pci_dev *pdev, int nr_virtfn) +{ + unsigned char my_mac_addr[6] = {0x00, 0xDE, 0xAD, 0xBE, 0xEF, 0xFF}; + struct net_device *netdev = pci_get_drvdata(pdev); + struct igb_adapter *adapter =

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

2008-11-06 Thread Chris Wright
we really know what the One True Usage model is for VF devices. Chris Wright has some ideas, I have some ideas and Yu Zhao has some ideas. I bet there's other people who have other ideas too. I'd love to hear those ideas. First there's the question of how to represent the VF on the host

Re: [RFC] CPUID usage for interaction between Hypervisors and Linux.

2008-10-01 Thread Chris Wright
* Anthony Liguori ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: We've already gone down the road of trying to make standard paravirtual interfaces (via virtio). No one was sufficiently interested in collaborating. I don't see why other paravirtualizations are going to be much different. The point is to

Re: [RFC PATCH 01/11] Add basic support for gcc profiler instrumentation

2008-01-03 Thread Chris Wright
* Steven Rostedt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hmm, I know paravirt-ops had an issue with mcount in the RT tree. I can't remember the exact issues, but it did have something to do with the way parameters were passed in. Chris, do you remember what the issues were? Yes, paravirt ops have a

Re: [RFC PATCH 01/11] Add basic support for gcc profiler instrumentation

2008-01-03 Thread Chris Wright
* Steven Rostedt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Thu, 3 Jan 2008, Chris Wright wrote: Yes, paravirt ops have a well-specified calling convention (register based). There was a cleanup that Andi did that caused the problem because it removed all the fastcall annotations since -mregparm=3

Re: [PATCH] Add I/O hypercalls for i386 paravirt

2007-08-22 Thread Chris Wright
* James Courtier-Dutton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: If one could directly expose a device to the guest, this feature could be extremely useful for me. Is it possible? How would it manage to handle the DMA bus mastering? Yes it's possible (Xen supports pci pass through). Without an IOMMU (like

Re: [PATCH] Add I/O hypercalls for i386 paravirt

2007-08-22 Thread Chris Wright
* James Courtier-Dutton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Ok, so I need to get a new CPU like the Intel Core Duo that has VT features? I have an old Pentium 4 at the moment, without any VT features. Depends on your goals. You can certainly give a paravirt Xen guest[1] physical hardware without any VT

Re: [PATCH 3/25][V3] irq_flags / halt routines

2007-08-15 Thread Chris Wright
* Glauber de Oliveira Costa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: As alternatives what we have now, we can either keep the paravirt_ops as it is now for the native case, just hooking the vsmp functions in place of the normal one, (there are just three ops anyway), refill the paravirt_ops entirely in

Re: [PATCH 3/25][V3] irq_flags / halt routines

2007-08-15 Thread Chris Wright
* Glauber de Oliveira Costa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Only caveat, is that it has to be done before smp gets in the game, and with interrupts disabled. (which makes the function in vsmp.c not eligible). My current option is to force VSMP to use PARAVIRT, as said before, and then fill

Re: [PATCH] [545/2many] MAINTAINERS - XEN HYPERVISOR INTERFACE

2007-08-13 Thread Chris Wright
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Add file pattern to MAINTAINER entry Signed-off-by: Joe Perches [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index e4e1cc3..8395aba 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -5153,6 +5153,11 @@ M: [EMAIL PROTECTED] L:

Re: [PATCH] [545/2many] MAINTAINERS - XEN HYPERVISOR INTERFACE

2007-08-13 Thread Chris Wright
* Randy Dunlap ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:55:36 -0700 Chris Wright wrote: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: +F: arch/i386/xen/ +F: drivers/*/xen-*front.c +F: drivers/xen/ +F: include/asm-i386/xen/ +F: include/xen

Re: changing definition of paravirt_ops.iret

2007-05-21 Thread Chris Wright
* Jeremy Fitzhardinge ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm implementing a more efficient version of the Xen iret paravirt_op, so that it can use the real iret instruction where possible. I really need to get access to per-cpu variables, so I can set the event mask state in the vcpu_info structure,

Re: [1/2] [NET] link_watch: Move link watch list into net_device

2007-05-10 Thread Chris Wright
* Jeremy Fitzhardinge ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Yep, this patch gets rid of my spinning thread. I can't find this patch or any discussion on marc.info; is there a better netdev list archive? See the linkwatch bustage in git-net thread on netdev

[ANNOUNCE] paravirt_ops i686 Fedora rawhide kernel packages

2007-05-02 Thread Chris Wright
If you are interested in trying the new paravirt_ops kernels, I've created some packages and uploaded them to: http://et.redhat.com/~chrisw/paravirt_ops/ There you'll find a yum repo (see yum.README for details) and an INSTALL file for getting started. With this package you can use a single

Re: [PATCH 10/28] i386: map enough initial memory to create lowmem mappings

2007-04-25 Thread Chris Wright
* Jeremy Fitzhardinge ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Eric W. Biederman wrote: Then why you had to allocate enough pages to cause a failure has me stumped. Perhaps there is some other bug? Perhaps, but nothing comes to mind. I'll see what happens when I boot this kernel on real hardware

Re: paravirt repo rebased to 2.6.21-rc6-mm1

2007-04-12 Thread Chris Wright
* Jeremy Fitzhardinge ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Seems to work OK for native and Xen. I had to play a bit with the paravirt-sched-clock patch to deal with the VMI changes. Zach, can you check that it still works? Here's what's working for me on UP. The boot cpu on UP is never getting the

Re: [PATCH 9/10] Vmi timer update.patch

2007-04-10 Thread Chris Wright
* Zachary Amsden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Yes, but unfortunately that is a nop: /* * Avoid unnecessary state transitions, as it confuses * Geode / Cyrix based boxen. */ case CLOCK_EVT_MODE_SHUTDOWN: if (evt-mode ==

Re: [PATCH 9/10] Vmi timer update.patch

2007-04-10 Thread Chris Wright
* Zachary Amsden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: Why not submit a patch to do what you need here? (The Geode comment is a bit worrying though.) Why should VMI add workaround into PIT code? I'm not sure it's a workaround, seems more like a subtle diff (perhaps it's

Re: paravirt repo rebased to 2.6.21-rc6-mm1

2007-04-10 Thread Chris Wright
* Jeremy Fitzhardinge ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Seems to work OK for native and Xen. I had to play a bit with the paravirt-sched-clock patch to deal with the VMI changes. Zach, can you check that it still works? Cool, thanks for the rebase. Here's some small fixes. Minor issue with

Re: paravirt repo rebased to 2.6.21-rc6-mm1

2007-04-10 Thread Chris Wright
* Zachary Amsden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: Seems to work OK for native and Xen. I had to play a bit with the paravirt-sched-clock patch to deal with the VMI changes. Zach, can you check that it still works? I'm on it. Not sure about cycles_2_ns...

Re: [PATCH 9/10] Vmi timer update.patch

2007-04-09 Thread Chris Wright
* Zachary Amsden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: diff -r c02ab981c99c arch/i386/kernel/vmiclock.c --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 + +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/vmiclock.c Mon Apr 09 15:47:17 2007 -0700 @@ -0,0 +1,318 @@ +/* + * VMI paravirtual timer support routines. + * + * Copyright

Re: [patch 13/26] Xen-paravirt_ops: Consistently wrap paravirt ops callsites to make them patchable

2007-03-19 Thread Chris Wright
* Eric W. Biederman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Is it truly critical to inline any of these instructions? I don't have any current measurements. But we'd been aiming at getting irq_{en,dis}able to a simple memory write to pda. But simplicity, maintenance, etc. win over trimming a couple cycles,