Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] [PATCH][RFC][IA64] Accelerate IDE PIO on HVM/IA64

2006-12-04 Thread tgingold
Quoting Kouya SHIMURA [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This patch significantly accelerates IDE PIO on HVM/IA64: * reduces the installation time of Windows 2003 Server from 10 hours(!) to 50min. * accelerates Windows CrashDumping speed from 40KB/sec (It takes over three hours for 512MB guest) to

[Xen-ia64-devel] Re: [PATCH] Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 2/2] PV framebuffer

2006-12-04 Thread Atsushi SAKAI
Hi, Markus Thank you for your suggestion. My config is attached as follows(see below) Anyway, I cannot find vfb and vkbd definition in RHEL5 package. Please give me appropriate config. kernel = /boot/efi/efi/xen/vmlinuz-2.6.16.29-xen-sakaia ramdisk =

[Xen-ia64-devel] [RFC] [PATCH 2/4][IA64][HVM] Windows 2003 server crashdump suppprt

2006-12-04 Thread Masaki Kanno
[2/4] Xen common side. xm_osinit_xen_common_side.patch Description: Binary data ___ Xen-ia64-devel mailing list Xen-ia64-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-ia64-devel

[Xen-ia64-devel] [RFC] [PATCH 3/4][IA64][HVM] Windows 2003 server crashdump suppprt

2006-12-04 Thread Masaki Kanno
[3/4] Xen arch/ia64 side. xm_osinit_xen_arch-ia64_side.patch Description: Binary data ___ Xen-ia64-devel mailing list Xen-ia64-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-ia64-devel

[Xen-ia64-devel] [RFC] [PATCH 4/4][IA64][HVM] Windows 2003 server crashdump suppprt

2006-12-04 Thread Masaki Kanno
[4/4] Linux side. xm_osinit_linux_side.patch Description: Binary data ___ Xen-ia64-devel mailing list Xen-ia64-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-ia64-devel

[Xen-ia64-devel] [RFC] [PATCH 1/4][IA64][HVM] Windows 2003 server crashdump suppprt

2006-12-04 Thread Masaki Kanno
[1/4] Tools side. xm_osinit_tools_side.patch Description: Binary data ___ Xen-ia64-devel mailing list Xen-ia64-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-ia64-devel

Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] [Patch] fix warnings while rebooting

2006-12-04 Thread Aron Griffis
Hi Akio, I'm sorry, but I'm confused by your message. Are you saying there are two problems here? One problem in xen/ia64 and one problem in the e1000 driver? You sent a patch, I guess that is for xen-ia64-unstable, right? If that is ready to be applied, could you include a description of the

Re: [RFC][PATCH] changed foreing ia64-domain page mapping semantic (was Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] xen-ia64-unstable.hg breakage)

2006-12-04 Thread Alex Williamson
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 22:01 +0900, Isaku Yamahata wrote: With this patch, I can successfully create domU. The issue I haven't solved is how to initialize shared_info page. Currently the shared info for domU can be accessed only via fixed virtual address. With this patch, it is done in xen as

RE: [Xen-ia64-devel][PATCH]fix vti inital broken after merge

2006-12-04 Thread Alex Williamson
On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 09:54 +0800, Xu, Anthony wrote: Alex Williamson write on 2006年12月2日 1:44: I think it would be cleaner just to make the ia64 specific xc_set_hvm_param() ignore HVM_PARAM_PAE_ENABLED (or have the xen side of the hypercall ignore it). Alex, For HVM_INFO and

Re: [PATCH 1/2] import linux/include/asm-ia64/uaccess.h for /dev/mem paravirtualization (was Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] [PATCH] paravirtualize /dev/mem to use X)

2006-12-04 Thread Alex Williamson
On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 16:01 +0900, Isaku Yamahata wrote: import linux/include/asm-ia64/uaccess.h for /dev/mem paravirtualization I applied these now with the latest merge from xen-unstable. Thanks, Alex -- Alex Williamson HP Open Source Linux Org.

Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] [Patch] fix warnings while rebooting

2006-12-04 Thread Akio Takebe
Hi, Aron Hi Akio, I'm sorry, but I'm confused by your message. Are you saying there are two problems here? One problem in xen/ia64 and one problem in the e1000 driver? Yes, there are two problem here. 1. double free message is happened 2. CallTrace is happened problem 1 is a issue of

RE: [Xen-ia64-devel][PATCH]fix vti inital broken after merge

2006-12-04 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
Hi Alex: With this patch, SMP HVM only can boot as UP. Due to add_vcpus_hob() has been removed from build_hob(). Since parameter 'vcpus' not available in setup_guest(). We prefer to use index 'PAE' to save vcpus to xen in python code and get it back in setup_guest(). Codes probably like

RE: [Xen-ia64-devel][PATCH]fix vti inital broken after merge

2006-12-04 Thread Xu, Anthony
Alex Williamson write on 2006年12月5日 5:19: On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 09:54 +0800, Xu, Anthony wrote: Alex Williamson write on 2006年12月2日 1:44: Does that mean SMP HVM guests work with this patch? Yes, it works, HVM_INFO is only removed for IPF side. I was wondering if HVM_INFO is how x86 is

[Xen-ia64-devel] Re: [PATCH][RFC][IA64] Accelerate IDE PIO on HVM/IA64

2006-12-04 Thread Kouya SHIMURA
Hi, Tristan Thanks for your comments. * In any case, I have to allocate another page for IDE PIO buffer. Actually this patch works well on any size of buffer. The size is just trade-off with the performance. FYI, 2048 bytes seems to be enough for CDROM. * The location where data is being

[xen-ia64-devel][Patch] new fix vti broken after merger

2006-12-04 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
Hi Alex: I admit there are some codes looking ugly with #if defined, I have no good way to deal with these IA32 specific codes without this method. About how to pass parameter vcpus, this may be a work around way before we found better solution. Good good study,day day up

Re: [Xen-ia64-devel][PATCH]Change to new interrupt deliver mechanism

2006-12-04 Thread Doi . Tsunehisa
Hi, I (Doi.Tsunehisa) said: Hmm.. Current implement needs the GSI for platform-pci to follow status of virtual IOSAPIC in hypervisor side. But, it's not certain value from virtual IOSAPIC at calling set_callback_irq hypercall. I'll be thinking more... I've investigated it, but I

RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] [PATCH][RFC][IA64] Accelerate IDE PIO on HVM/IA64

2006-12-04 Thread Zhang, Jingke
Hi Kouya, With your patch, win2k3 installation can be done within 40 minutes! I have integrated #Cset12525 with the accelerating patch. It took 20 minutes to load file (you will see it in a blue screen). And then the guest quickly installed the win2k3 from the CD-ROM, totally within

RE: [Xen-ia64-devel][PATCH]Change to new interrupt deliver mechanism

2006-12-04 Thread Xu, Anthony
[EMAIL PROTECTED] write on 2006年12月5日 12:05: Hi, I've investigated it, but I couldn't find the method to get GSI of platform-pci for PV-on-HVM driver. There is convert functions like isa_irq_to_vector() in linux kernel source. [arch/ia64/kernel/apci.c] int acpi_gsi_to_irq(u32