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

2012-11-23 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Daniel Kiper writes: > On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 04:15:48AM -0800, ebied...@xmission.com wrote: >> >> Is this for when the hypervisor crashes and we want a crash dump of >> that? > > dom0 at boot gets some info about kexec/kdump configuration from Xen > hypervisor > (e.g. placement of crash kernel

[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. --- Chan

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 wrote: > > > > The crash region (as specified by crashkernel= on the

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 wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 09:53:37AM +, Jan Beulich wrote: > >> >>> On 23.11.12 at 02:56, Andrew Cooper wrote: > >> > On 23/11/2012 01:38, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >> >> I still don't

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" 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 three-

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 wrote: > > > The crash region (as specified by crashkernel= on the Xen command line) > > > is isolated from dom0. > > >[...] > > > > But

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 wrote: > On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 09:53:37AM +, Jan Beulich wrote: >> >>> On 23.11.12 at 02:56, Andrew Cooper 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 m

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 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. > >> > > > > T

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

2012-11-23 Thread Daniel Kiper
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 04:15:48AM -0800, ebied...@xmission.com wrote: > Daniel Kiper writes: > > > On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 08:40:39AM -0800, ebied...@xmission.com wrote: > >> Daniel Kiper writes: > >> > >> > Some kexec/kdump implementations (e.g. Xen PVOPS) could not use default > >> > functions

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 Jan Beulich
>>> On 22.11.12 at 18:37, "H. Peter Anvin" 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 reason, s

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

2012-11-23 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 23.11.12 at 02:56, Andrew Cooper 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. >> > > The crash region (as specified by crashkernel= on the Xen command line) >