RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] SMP guest and itc

2006-02-14 Thread Dong, Eddie
Alex: Can't exposing an formula cooperatively between domain hypervisor solve the prpblem? E.g: guest_ITC=host_ITC * fact + offset;If the host ITC is accurate enough. Or guest_ITC = host_high_precise_timer_count * fat + offset; if the hyprevisor want to use other

RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] SMP guest and itc

2006-02-14 Thread Alex Williamson
On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 18:10 +0800, Dong, Eddie wrote: Alex: Can't exposing an formula cooperatively between domain hypervisor solve the prpblem? E.g: guest_ITC=host_ITC * fact + offset;If the host ITC is accurate enough. Or guest_ITC = host_high_precise_timer_count *

[Xen-ia64-devel] FW: [Xen-devel] 3.0.x release mechanism clarification please?

2006-02-14 Thread Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins)
... Of course, our automated tests only currently test x86 32/32p/64 xen. We should fix this and add ia64 (we now have a couple of machines). It's on the (long) todo list. Ian Does anyone in the Xen/ia64 community have an employee or contractor located in Cambridge that could assist with

RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] SMP guest and itc

2006-02-14 Thread Luck, Tony
Base on my understanding, the ITC drift between different processor after fixup done in Linux or Xen today is less than 100ns. So I think that is not a big issue as if we guarantee the guest doesn't see backward time. The context switch time of Xen or Linux doesn't matter. The worst case

[Xen-ia64-devel] [Patch] different type of argument in vcpu_set_gr()

2006-02-14 Thread Akio Takebe
Hi, I tested Page reference counter. I had a problem which DomU have a General Exception at DomU's booting time. I fixed Reserved Register/Field fault in printf(). This bug is probably occurred by wrong type arguments in sal_emulate(). This bug was very difficult. I checked compile warnnigs,

[Xen-ia64-devel] [Patch] wrong type cast in ia64_hypercall

2006-02-14 Thread Akio Takebe
Hi, This is wrong type cast. This patch fix warnning of incompatible pointer type. Signed-off-by: Akio Takebe [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -r 982b9678af2c xen/arch/ia64/xen/hypercall.c --- a/xen/arch/ia64/xen/hypercall.c Fri Feb 10 23:16:33 2006 +++ b/xen/arch/ia64/xen/hypercall.c Wed Feb 15

[Xen-ia64-devel] [PATCH] declaration of metaphysical_rr

2006-02-14 Thread Masaki Kanno
Hi, I'm making a patch for domain destruction. While I tested my patch by repeatedly creating/destructing domains, a reserved register/field fault occurred in load_region_regs(). The cause of this fault is rr0 value overflow(0x) because metaphysical_rr0 in the arch_domain struct