Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] KVM simplified virtio balloon driver

2008-01-19 Thread Anthony Liguori
Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 04:37:43PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote: > >> Avi Kivity wrote: >> >>> Rusty Russell wrote: >>> After discussions with Anthony Liguori, it seems that the virtio balloon can be made even simpler. Here's my attempt.

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] KVM simplified virtio balloon driver

2008-01-19 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 04:37:43PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote: > Avi Kivity wrote: > >Rusty Russell wrote: > >>After discussions with Anthony Liguori, it seems that the virtio > >>balloon can be made even simpler. Here's my attempt. > >> > >>Since the balloon requires Guest cooperation anyway, t

[kvm-devel] kvm: qemu: remove SIGUSR2 from io_sigset patch slows VMs

2008-01-19 Thread Will Trives
Hello, This patch : kvm: qemu: remove SIGUSR2 from io_sigset Applied 15th Jan 2008 looks to kill I/O performance for me. As soon as I revert it my VMs are much faster. I don't really use SMP for my guests, perhaps this patch has made uniprocessor VMs slower ? The issue occurs even when using RA

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] KVM simplified virtio balloon driver

2008-01-19 Thread Anthony Liguori
Avi Kivity wrote: > Rusty Russell wrote: >> After discussions with Anthony Liguori, it seems that the virtio >> balloon can be made even simpler. Here's my attempt. >> >> Since the balloon requires Guest cooperation anyway, there seems >> little reason to force it to tell the Host when it wants to

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] kvm: qemu: remove SIGUSR2 from io_sigset

2008-01-19 Thread Will Trives
Hello, This patch : kvm: qemu: remove SIGUSR2 from io_sigset Applied 15th Jan 2008 looks to kill I/O performance for me. As soon as I revert it my VMs are much faster. I don't really use SMP for my guests, perhaps this patch made uniprocessor VMs slower ? Regards, Will Trives --

Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC] fix VMX TSC synchronicity

2008-01-19 Thread Andi Kleen
Avi Kivity writes: > Thanks; that's reassuring to know that it will work (at least on Intel). Actually there are modern Intel systems which still have instable TSCs; e.g. IBM Summit multi node systems and some others. So you should still handle that case. -Andi -

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] add acpi powerbutton support

2008-01-19 Thread Jan Kiszka
Guido Guenther wrote: > On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 01:34:30PM +0900, Jun Koi wrote: >> Sorry for my ignorance, but what is the effect of this patch? So >> I can shutdown guest VM cleanly, or smt else?? > system_powerdown in the commmand monitor now simulates the pressing of > the acpi power butto

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] add acpi powerbutton support

2008-01-19 Thread Guido Guenther
On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 12:20:56AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > I found a piix4 acpi spec update that says that the SCI interrupt is > hardwired to IRQ9 and is active high. Linux knows about this and ignores > the pci irq config for this function. With the following changes Aahh, that's why Xen h

Re: [kvm-devel] RFC: qemu acpi hotplug

2008-01-19 Thread Avi Kivity
Glauber de Oliveira Costa wrote: > When it's more close to inclusion, I'd also post it to main qemu list. > But right now, I'm just aiming at a first round around this draft. > > The attached patch is enough to make the notifications DEVICE_CHECK > and EJECT reach the kernel. As far as I understa