Re: [PATCH RFC V6 5/5] Documentation/kvm : Add documentation on Hypercalls and features used for PV spinlock

2012-04-27 Thread Rob Landley
On 04/23/2012 05:00 AM, Raghavendra K T wrote: From: Raghavendra K T raghavendra...@linux.vnet.ibm.com ... --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/hypercalls.txt @@ -0,0 +1,59 @@ +KVM Hypercalls Documentation +=== +Template for documentation is +The

[RFC PATCH TRIVIAL] Reading the virtio code...

2011-04-25 Thread Rob Landley
From: Rob Landley rland...@parallels.com Going indirect for only two buffers isn't likely to be a performance win because the kmalloc/kfree overhead for the indirect block can't be cheaper than one extra linked list traversal. Properly tuning the threshold would probably be workload-specific

Re: [PATCH 1/7] lguest: documentation pt I: Preparation

2007-07-27 Thread Rob Landley
On Wednesday 25 July 2007 11:35:22 pm Rusty Russell wrote: On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 18:22 -0400, Rob Landley wrote: On Monday 23 July 2007 9:01:48 pm Rusty Russell wrote: IOW, I'd be interested in hearing Rob and Randy's opinions on it all, please. So they can see what we're talking

Re: [PATCH 1/7] lguest: documentation pt I: Preparation

2007-07-25 Thread Rob Landley
On Monday 23 July 2007 9:01:48 pm Rusty Russell wrote: IOW, I'd be interested in hearing Rob and Randy's opinions on it all, please. So they can see what we're talking about, here's an example of the output: http://lguest.ozlabs.org/lguest-journey.c.bz2 Er, so you read the readme,

Re: [PATCH 1/7] lguest: documentation pt I: Preparation

2007-07-25 Thread Rob Landley
On Monday 23 July 2007 10:21:13 pm Randy Dunlap wrote: On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:12:38 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote: On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 11:17:58 +1000 Rusty Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The netfilter code had very good documentation: the Netfilter Hacking HOWTO. Noone ever read it.

Re: [PATCH RFC 6/7] i386: make the bzImage payload an ELF file

2007-06-06 Thread Rob Landley
On Wednesday 06 June 2007 7:41 pm, H. Peter Anvin wrote: This makes vmlinux (normally stripped) recoverable from the bzImage file and so anything that is currently booting vmlinux would be serviced by this scheme. Would this make it sane to strip the initramfs image out of vmlinux with