Re: [Xen-API] Intel CQM feature enabling in XenAPI

2014-06-19 Thread Bob Ball
Hi Qiaowei, > For question 1, I can clone XenAPI master to change it, and then compress it > .tar.gz to replace that in buildroot. I notice buildroot will re-build with > this > updated .tar.gz. :) So I guess it will solve how to add patch to latest XenAPI > and test it. That's a good way to do

Re: [Xen-API] Intel CQM feature enabling in XenAPI

2014-06-18 Thread Ren, Qiaowei
On 2014-06-13, Ren, Qiaowei wrote: > On 2014-06-12, Bob Ball wrote: >>> 1) how can we add patches into XenAPI upstream and test them? >>> I noticed that buildroot project will download latest XenAPI tag >>> from github to build and package. But If I git clone latest XenAPI >>> code and change it, I

Re: [Xen-API] Intel CQM feature enabling in XenAPI

2014-06-12 Thread Ren, Qiaowei
On 2014-06-12, Bob Ball wrote: >> 1) how can we add patches into XenAPI upstream and test them? >> I noticed that buildroot project will download latest XenAPI tag >> from github to build and package. But If I git clone latest XenAPI >> code and change it, I don't know how to have buildroot use our

Re: [Xen-API] Intel CQM feature enabling in XenAPI

2014-04-11 Thread Ren, Qiaowei
Hi Bob, > > Ah - it seems that I forgot to add the debug patch file to the repository. > Unfortunately it seems the system I was using to write this patch has now > been re-installed. > > I'm not sure if it's needed, so please try again (I've removed the patch from > the > branch) and if it doe

Re: [Xen-API] Intel CQM feature enabling in XenAPI

2014-04-11 Thread Ren, Qiaowei
Hi Bob, > > Ah - it seems that I forgot to add the debug patch file to the repository. > Unfortunately it seems the system I was using to write this patch has now > been re-installed. > > I'm not sure if it's needed, so please try again (I've removed the patch from > the > branch) and if it doe

Re: [Xen-API] Intel CQM feature enabling in XenAPI

2014-04-11 Thread Bob Ball
iaowei [qiaowei@intel.com] Sent: 11 April 2014 06:48 To: Ren, Qiaowei; Bob Ball; Euan Harris Cc: xen-api@lists.xen.org Subject: RE: [Xen-API] Intel CQM feature enabling in XenAPI Hi Bob, > > > > > Just remove the "deps" file from the root and it will rebuild it and &g

Re: [Xen-API] Intel CQM feature enabling in XenAPI

2014-04-10 Thread Ren, Qiaowei
Hi Bob, > > > > > Just remove the "deps" file from the root and it will rebuild it and > > all of the RPMS - you don't need to delete the directory. > > > > This is probably because I was actively developing it so the deps file > > was regularly rebuilt for me. > > > Oh, got it. I am trying. > I

Re: [Xen-API] Intel CQM feature enabling in XenAPI

2014-04-10 Thread Ren, Qiaowei
Hi Bob, > > Just remove the "deps" file from the root and it will rebuild it and all of > the > RPMS - you don't need to delete the directory. > > This is probably because I was actively developing it so the deps file was > regularly rebuilt for me. > Oh, got it. I am trying. BTW, when I fini

Re: [Xen-API] Intel CQM feature enabling in XenAPI

2014-04-10 Thread Bob Ball
m: Ren, Qiaowei [qiaowei@intel.com] Sent: 10 April 2014 01:45 To: Bob Ball; Euan Harris Cc: xen-api@lists.xen.org Subject: RE: [Xen-API] Intel CQM feature enabling in XenAPI Hi Bob, > > Yes to all of the below. > > If you're interested in testing it out, perhaps you can just try

Re: [Xen-API] Intel CQM feature enabling in XenAPI

2014-04-09 Thread Ren, Qiaowei
Hi Bob, > > Yes to all of the below. > > If you're interested in testing it out, perhaps you can just try to use my > branch > from https://github.com/bobball/xenserver-core/tree/trunk-fix > > Pull requests welcome to fix anything that doesn't quite work yet! > > Bob > I tried your branch, a

Re: [Xen-API] Intel CQM feature enabling in XenAPI

2014-04-09 Thread Ren, Qiaowei
anything that doesn't quite work yet! > > Bob > > > -Original Message- > > From: Ren, Qiaowei [mailto:qiaowei@intel.com] > > Sent: 09 April 2014 14:23 > > To: Bob Ball; Euan Harris > > Cc: xen-api@lists.xen.org > > Subject: RE: [Xen-API]

Re: [Xen-API] Intel CQM feature enabling in XenAPI

2014-04-09 Thread Bob Ball
om: Ren, Qiaowei [mailto:qiaowei@intel.com] > Sent: 09 April 2014 14:23 > To: Bob Ball; Euan Harris > Cc: xen-api@lists.xen.org > Subject: RE: [Xen-API] Intel CQM feature enabling in XenAPI > > Hi Bob, > > > > > This sounds like it could be heading down a rabbi

Re: [Xen-API] Intel CQM feature enabling in XenAPI

2014-04-09 Thread Ren, Qiaowei
Hi Bob, > > This sounds like it could be heading down a rabbit hole, trying to get > xenserver-core building from XAPI trunk. If I remember correctly, the current > issue is that you need to take a newer ocaml-xcp-idl. > > I've made a number of changes which I suspect you may need at > https://

Re: [Xen-API] Intel CQM feature enabling in XenAPI

2014-04-09 Thread Bob Ball
7;ll be getting back to it soon I hope. Bob > -Original Message- > From: xen-api-boun...@lists.xen.org [mailto:xen-api- > boun...@lists.xen.org] On Behalf Of Ren, Qiaowei > Sent: 09 April 2014 04:33 > To: Euan Harris > Cc: xen-api@lists.xen.org > Subject: Re: [Xen-API]

Re: [Xen-API] Intel CQM feature enabling in XenAPI

2014-04-08 Thread Ren, Qiaowei
Hi Euan, > > This is happening because building and installing xenserver-core does > not install xen-api's build dependencies. xenserver-core builds RPMs > in temporary chroot environments, using mock, so even though you have build > xen-api as part of xenserver-core, its dependencies were not

Re: [Xen-API] Intel CQM feature enabling in XenAPI

2014-04-08 Thread Euan Harris
Forgot to attach the patch... Thanks, Euan On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 03:45:40PM +0100, Euan Harris wrote: > Hi, > > > I once asked Zheng Li for help. Thanks for Zheng's help.:) > > Zheng told me that we could build xenserver-core probject > > (https://github.com/xenserver/xenserver-core), with whi

Re: [Xen-API] Intel CQM feature enabling in XenAPI

2014-04-08 Thread Euan Harris
Hi, > I once asked Zheng Li for help. Thanks for Zheng's help.:) > Zheng told me that we could build xenserver-core probject > (https://github.com/xenserver/xenserver-core), with which we should be > able to build most xenserver components (including xapi) on a vanilla > CentOS. > > We tried this

[Xen-API] Intel CQM feature enabling in XenAPI

2014-04-08 Thread Ren, Qiaowei
Hi Everyone, This email is about CQM (a new feature implemented in Intel Xeon processors) enabling in XenAPI. And we have to ask you for help. CQM (Cache QoS Monitoring) allows an Operating System, Hypervisor or similar system management agent to determine the usage of cache by applications run