Re: [PATCH 3/4] virtio: console makes incorrect assumption about virtio API

2010-03-29 Thread Amit Shah
On (Tue) Mar 30 2010 [15:49:22], Rusty Russell wrote: > The get_buf() API sets the second arg to the number of bytes *written* > by the other side; in this case it should be zero as these are output buffers. > > lguest gets this right (obviously kvm's console doesn't), resulting in > continual bui

Re: [PATCH 4/4] virtio: disable multiport console support.

2010-03-29 Thread Amit Shah
On (Tue) Mar 30 2010 [15:49:43], Rusty Russell wrote: > Unfortunately there proved to be at least one bug which requires an > ABI change, so we're best off not introducing multiport support until > 2.6.35. > > While I generally left the multiport code paths intact, I really wanted > to remove the

Re: [PATCH 0/7] virtio: console: Fixes, new flexible way of discovering ports

2010-03-29 Thread Amit Shah
On (Tue) Mar 30 2010 [15:46:14], Rusty Russell wrote: > On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 07:27:53 pm Amit Shah wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > This new patchset switches over to using the control queue for port > > discovery so that we can stay in sync with the host for port > > enumeration and also don't use bi

[PATCH 4/4] virtio: disable multiport console support.

2010-03-29 Thread Rusty Russell
Unfortunately there proved to be at least one bug which requires an ABI change, so we're best off not introducing multiport support until 2.6.35. While I generally left the multiport code paths intact, I really wanted to remove the ABI defines from the header, which meant some quite deep cuts. Si

[PATCH 3/4] virtio: console makes incorrect assumption about virtio API

2010-03-29 Thread Rusty Russell
The get_buf() API sets the second arg to the number of bytes *written* by the other side; in this case it should be zero as these are output buffers. lguest gets this right (obviously kvm's console doesn't), resulting in continual buildup of console writes. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell To: Amit

[PATCH 2/4] virtio: console: Fix early_put_chars usage

2010-03-29 Thread Rusty Russell
From: Francois Diakhate Currently early_put_chars is not used by virtio_console because it can only be used once a port has been found, at which point it's too late because it is no longer needed. This patch should fix it. Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger Signed-off-by: Amit Shah Signed-off-by:

[PATCH 1/4] MAINTAINERS: Put the virtio-console entry in correct alphabetical order

2010-03-29 Thread Rusty Russell
From: Amit Shah Move around the entry for virtio-console to keep the file sorted. Signed-off-by: Amit Shah Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell --- MAINTAINERS | 13 +++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 449d444..e3548dd 100644 -

Re: [PATCH 0/7] virtio: console: Fixes, new flexible way of discovering ports

2010-03-29 Thread Rusty Russell
On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 07:27:53 pm Amit Shah wrote: > Hello all, > > This new patchset switches over to using the control queue for port > discovery so that we can stay in sync with the host for port > enumeration and also don't use bitmaps to limit us to config space > sizes. > > This changes the A

Call for Workshops: 2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing (CloudComp2010)

2010-03-29 Thread Ming Zhao
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