Re: [kvm-devel] Gentoo livecd amd64 not working?

2007-05-20 Thread Jim Paris
On the gname archive its even worse the @@ get converted to at at as they must think its an email address. So it looks like the archives are a poor place to pickup patches, at least for me. .. Sorry for any confusion but the upshot is still that the archives are unable to be used for

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 5/9] KVM: Adds ability to signal userspace using a file-descriptor

2007-05-20 Thread Avi Kivity
Davide Libenzi wrote: On Thu, 17 May 2007, Avi Kivity wrote: Davide Libenzi wrote: On Wed, 16 May 2007, Avi Kivity wrote: IMO doing eventfd_fget() asap is best. I much prefer refcounted pointers to handles in the kernel: it's easier to see what things point to, and

Re: [kvm-devel] general protection fault

2007-05-20 Thread Dor Laor
What to do? Re-test it without using xen's dom0 kernel. malysh:/var/log# uname -a Linux malysh 2.6.18-4-xen-amd64 #1 SMP Fri May 4 02:40:51 UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux kvm_amd21520 0 kvm68596 1 kvm_amd

Re: [kvm-devel] New VT-D spec available

2007-05-20 Thread Avi Kivity
Nakajima, Jun wrote: An updated specification (Rev 1.0 update) of Intel(r) virtualization technology for Directed I/O is now available on Intel web site: http://download.intel.com/technology/computing/vptech/Intel(r)_VT_for_Di rect_IO.pdf The specification update includes DMA remapping

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH/RFC] KVM: Adds support for halting in the kernel

2007-05-20 Thread Avi Kivity
Gregory Haskins wrote: Hi All, I was thinking about some of the issues that we are dealing with w.r.t. signalling a sleeping userspace (eventfd, signals, etc). I was wondering if perhaps we were looking at the problem the wrong way. Can we perform halts in the kernel and

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 0/9] in-kernel APIC v6 (kernel side)

2007-05-20 Thread Avi Kivity
Gregory Haskins wrote: 2) Moved eventfd patch to end of series and dropped it from the public release (for now). We dont technically need to signal userspace if PIT is enabled since this wakes us up anyway. We can defer the eventfd/in-kernel-halt conversation for later. The PIT will

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 0/9] in-kernel APIC v6 (kernel side)

2007-05-20 Thread Gregory Haskins
Avi Kivity [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/20/07 3:55 AM The PIT will wake us up, but at a substantial delay, which may cause a large drop in throughput. It's not enough to get the wakeup, it needs to be immediate. I agree fully. To clarify, I just meant we are ok to review v6 without a solution in

[kvm-devel] [PATCH] fix a typo

2007-05-20 Thread Dong, Eddie
Seems a typo leaking our eyes :-( Fixing a typo which mixes X86_64 and CONFIG_X86_64 and block 64 bits guest now. Signed-off-by: Yaozu (Eddie) Dong [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff --git a/drivers/kvm/vmx.c b/drivers/kvm/vmx.c index 5f4bdc0..9bf8c04 100644 ---

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] MSR_EFER acceleration for lighweight VM Exit

2007-05-20 Thread Dong, Eddie
Avi Kivity wrote: Dong, Eddie wrote: Avi: This patch is to avoid saving and restoring of msr_efer on lightweight vmexit. With this patch, the Kernel build get 10% increasement for 64bits on 64 bits, and 5-8% increasement for 32bits on 64 bits. Vmexit.flat can see

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] MSR_EFER acceleration for lighweight VM Exit

2007-05-20 Thread Avi Kivity
Dong, Eddie wrote: Here is the reformatted one, with the patch 64bits guest Kernel Build performance on my platform exceeds Xen by ~7%. Hey, this came earlier than I expected :) +#define msr_efer_save_restore_bits(x) ((x).data EFER_SAVE_RESTORE_BITS) + This needs to be a

Re: [kvm-devel] Gentoo livecd amd64 not working?

2007-05-20 Thread Wink Saville
For archived messages at http://article.gmane.org/, you can append /raw to the URL to get an unprocessed copy of the message. Thanks for the info, at first I didn't catch that article.gmane.org was referring to as I read your post. So for other newbie's the kvm archive is at

[kvm-devel] Windows experience and Fixed Income experience is a plus.

2007-05-20 Thread Louise R. Roe
GPSI Announces Market Attack Into $1 Trillion Market! Global Payment Solutions Symbol: GPSI Price: $0.03 GPSI announced its plans to address the huge influx of immigrant workers into the US that need banking solutions that they otherwise would not qualify for. This market is expected to

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] MSR_EFER acceleration for lighweight VM Exit

2007-05-20 Thread Dong, Eddie
Try again. Eddie kvm.h |2 ++ kvm_main.c | 23 +++ vmx.c | 59 +-- 3 files changed, 66 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) commit 7de9b4bff794317ae05c0f3b2fec9b3d710fed2b Author: root [EMAIL

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] MSR_EFER acceleration for lighweight VM Exit

2007-05-20 Thread Dong, Eddie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try again. Wrong attachment. Please use this one. commit 5ad9d2ec2cd1f324aa75f2bb0fd7a2de1cb769c3 Author: root [EMAIL PROTECTED](none) Date: Mon May 21 10:37:34 2007 +0800 KVM: VMX: Avoid saving and restoring msr_efer on lightweight vmexit

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] MSR_EFER acceleration for lighweight VM Exit

2007-05-20 Thread Avi Kivity
Dong, Eddie wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try again. Wrong attachment. Please use this one. Applied thanks. -- Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic. -