Re: e1000 and PXE issues

2008-07-26 Thread Avi Kivity
Greg Kurtzer wrote: Hello, I noticed some problems with the e1000 implementation in kvm = 70. At first glance it seemed liked a PXE problem as it would not acknowledge the DHCP offer from the server. I tried several different Etherboot ROM images and version 5.2.6 seemed to work. That version

Re: [PATCH 1/4] KVM: Add irq ack notifier list

2008-07-26 Thread Avi Kivity
Ben-Ami Yassour wrote: From: Avi Kivity [EMAIL PROTECTED] This can be used by kvm subsystems that are interested in when interrupts are acked, for example time drift compenstation. Please add the pic and ioapic glue code to this patch. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PATCH retry] arch/ia64/kvm/kvm-ia64.c: Add local_irq_restore in error handling code

2008-07-26 Thread Avi Kivity
Julia Lawall wrote: From: Julia Lawall [EMAIL PROTECTED] There is a call to local_irq_restore in the normal exit case, so it would seem that there should be one on an error return as well. The semantic patch that finds this problem is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)

Re: [PATCH 2/9] kvm: qemu: Fix virtio_net tx timer

2008-07-26 Thread Avi Kivity
Mark McLoughlin wrote: The current virtio_net tx timer is 2ns, which doesn't make any sense. Set it to a more reasonable 150us instead. Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- qemu/hw/virtio-net.c |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git

Re: e1000 and PXE issues

2008-07-26 Thread Greg Kurtzer
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 1:12 AM, Avi Kivity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greg Kurtzer wrote: Hello, I noticed some problems with the e1000 implementation in kvm = 70. At first glance it seemed liked a PXE problem as it would not acknowledge the DHCP offer from the server. I tried several

Re: [PATCH 0/9][RFC] KVM virtio_net performance

2008-07-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
Anthony Liguori wrote: Hi Mark, Mark McLoughlin wrote: Hey, Here's a bunch of patches attempting to improve the performance of virtio_net. This is more an RFC rather than a patch submission since, as can be seen below, not all patches actually improve the perfomance measurably. I'm

[patch 0/3] fix PIT injection

2008-07-26 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
The in-kernel PIT emulation can either inject too many or too few interrupts. -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe kvm in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

[patch 1/3] KVM: Add irq ack notifier list

2008-07-26 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
From: Avi Kivity [EMAIL PROTECTED] This can be used by kvm subsystems that are interested in when interrupts are acked, for example time drift compensation. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/x86/kvm/irq.c | 22 ++ arch/x86/kvm/irq.h |

[patch 2/3] KVM: irq ack notification

2008-07-26 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Based on a patch from: Ben-Ami Yassour [EMAIL PROTECTED] which was based on a patch from: Amit Shah [EMAIL PROTECTED] Notify IRQ acking on PIC/APIC emulation. The previous patch missed two things: - Edge triggered interrupts on IOAPIC - PIC reset with IRR/ISR set should be equivalent to ack