On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 11:30:14AM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Tue, 2015-10-27 at 16:47 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Wei Liu, le Tue 27 Oct 2015 15:43:29 +0000, a écrit : > > > Oxenstored has a behaviour that it only writes a contiguous piece of > > > data. When it writes across ring boundary it will return a short-write > > > while there is still room. That leads to mini-os stalling when it sees > > > there is not enough data in the ring. > > > > > > Given that oxenstored is the default xenstored implementation we think > > > it would be useful to workaround this for the benefit of running mini- > > > os > > > (and unikernel based on it) on any Xen installation. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.l...@citrix.com> > > > > As discussed in the previous thread, this is rather a workaround. > > Given that I'm in the process of applying "tools/ocaml/xb: Correct > calculations of data/space the ring" which I think is the real fix here am > unsure if we still want to take this workaround. > > Any thoughts? >
We should apply it for master but not 4.6 branch. Because other people will grab mini-os and run it on older version of oxenstored. Wei. _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
