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Hi Attilio I have updated to the upstream Xen and try to boot into OVMF bios. Instead of fetching the OVMF code from the git mirror, I just copy the OVMF bios to ovmf directory. I use the bios="ovmf" in the HVM config file. But, there is an error when I create the domain. root@gavin-laptop:~# xl...

Signed-off-by: Attilio Rao <attilio.rao@citrix.com> Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com> --- Differences with previous revision: - Improvements to the manpage: * s/operated/made * s/compatbile/compatible * New paragraph for rombios, provided by Ian * s/force/request * redundant line re...

...I''m asking you is: - Do you like the idea to organize the development projects page like that? - Do you *all* want to contribute with a couple of ideas outlining the informations reported above? I don''t it is a huge effort if everyone contributes at least 1 entry or 2. Thanks, Attilio

Working on the Dell R420 today, got most of it working, even the broadcom ethernet cards! However, I get the following when I reboot the system: Syncing disks, vnodes remaining...4 Sleeping thread (tid 100107, pid 9) owns a non-sleepable lock KDB: stack backtrace of thread 100107: sched_switch() at sched_switch+0x19f mi_switch() at mi_switch+0x208 sleepq_switch() at sleepq_switch+0xfc

...ll fail never pass version targeted for testing: xen 0c3d19f40ab1 baseline version: xen a4d93d0e0df2 ------------------------------------------------------------ People who touched revisions under test: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> Attilio Rao <attilio.rao@citrix.com> George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com> Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com> Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com> Jean Guyader <jean.guyader@eu.citrix.com> Justin T. Gibbs <justing@spectralogic.com> Keir Fraser &l...

...ll fail never pass version targeted for testing: xen 71159fb049f2 baseline version: xen a4d93d0e0df2 ------------------------------------------------------------ People who touched revisions under test: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> Attilio Rao <attilio.rao@citrix.com> George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com> Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com> Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com> Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> Jean Guyader <jean.guyader@eu.citrix.com> Justin T. Gibbs <justi...

...s are welcome. github link: https://github.com/ktraghavendra/linux/tree/pvspinlock_v9 Please note that we set SPIN_THRESHOLD = 32k with this series, that would eatup little bit of overcommit performance of PLE machines and overall performance of non-PLE machines. The older series was tested by Attilio for Xen implementation [1]. Jeremy Fitzhardinge (9): x86/spinlock: Replace pv spinlocks with pv ticketlocks x86/ticketlock: Collapse a layer of functions xen: Defer spinlock setup until boot CPU setup xen/pvticketlock: Xen implementation for PV ticket locks xen/pvticketlocks: Add xen_nopvspin...

...s are welcome. github link: https://github.com/ktraghavendra/linux/tree/pvspinlock_v9 Please note that we set SPIN_THRESHOLD = 32k with this series, that would eatup little bit of overcommit performance of PLE machines and overall performance of non-PLE machines. The older series was tested by Attilio for Xen implementation [1]. Jeremy Fitzhardinge (9): x86/spinlock: Replace pv spinlocks with pv ticketlocks x86/ticketlock: Collapse a layer of functions xen: Defer spinlock setup until boot CPU setup xen/pvticketlock: Xen implementation for PV ticket locks xen/pvticketlocks: Add xen_nopvspin...

...s are welcome. github link: https://github.com/ktraghavendra/linux/tree/pvspinlock_v9 Please note that we set SPIN_THRESHOLD = 32k with this series, that would eatup little bit of overcommit performance of PLE machines and overall performance of non-PLE machines. The older series was tested by Attilio for Xen implementation [1]. Jeremy Fitzhardinge (9): x86/spinlock: Replace pv spinlocks with pv ticketlocks x86/ticketlock: Collapse a layer of functions xen: Defer spinlock setup until boot CPU setup xen/pvticketlock: Xen implementation for PV ticket locks xen/pvticketlocks: Add xen_nopvspin...

...y a very important feature indeed would cause us to slip the release. Features and improvements not on this list are of course welcome at any time before the feature freeze. Any questions and feedback are welcome! Your 4.3 release coordinator, George Dunlap * Event channel scalability owner: attilio@citrix Increase limit on event channels (currently 1024 for 32-bit guests, 4096 for 64-bit guests) * NUMA scheduler affinity owner: dario@citrix * NUMA Memory migration owner: dario@citrix * PVH mode, domU (w/ Linux) owner: mukesh@oracle * PVH mode, dom0 (w/ Linux) owner: mukesh@ora...

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge at citrix.com> This series replaces the existing paravirtualized spinlock mechanism with a paravirtualized ticketlock mechanism. (targeted for 3.5 window) Changes in V7: - Reabsed patches to 3.4-rc3 - Added jumplabel split patch (originally from Andrew Jones rebased to 3.4-rc3 - jumplabel changes from Ingo and Jason taken and now using

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge at citrix.com> This series replaces the existing paravirtualized spinlock mechanism with a paravirtualized ticketlock mechanism. (targeted for 3.5 window) Changes in V7: - Reabsed patches to 3.4-rc3 - Added jumplabel split patch (originally from Andrew Jones rebased to 3.4-rc3 - jumplabel changes from Ingo and Jason taken and now using

...or their time in reviewing and commenting on the patch series (including perhaps who have been not listed). Finally special thanks to KVM maintainers (Avi, Marcelo, Gleb) for their comments and Andrew Theurer, Chegu Vinod for their valuable testing and feedback. The older series[4] was tested by Attilio for Xen implementation. Note that Konrad needs to revert below two patches to enable xen on hvm 70dd4998, f10cd522c Changes in V12 - spiltted uapi header patch. - dropped patch 18. - bailout of lock spinning in case of NMI (Gleb) - drop out patch 18 whose benefits are inconclusive (Gleb, I...

...or their time in reviewing and commenting on the patch series (including perhaps who have been not listed). Finally special thanks to KVM maintainers (Avi, Marcelo, Gleb) for their comments and Andrew Theurer, Chegu Vinod for their valuable testing and feedback. The older series[4] was tested by Attilio for Xen implementation. Note that Konrad needs to revert below two patches to enable xen on hvm 70dd4998, f10cd522c Changes in V12 - spiltted uapi header patch. - dropped patch 18. - bailout of lock spinning in case of NMI (Gleb) - drop out patch 18 whose benefits are inconclusive (Gleb, I...

...or their time in reviewing and commenting on the patch series (including perhaps who have been not listed). Finally special thanks to KVM maintainers (Avi, Marcelo, Gleb) for their comments and Andrew Theurer, Chegu Vinod for their valuable testing and feedback. The older series[4] was tested by Attilio for Xen implementation. Note that Konrad needs to revert below two patches to enable xen on hvm 70dd4998, f10cd522c Changes in V12 - spiltted uapi header patch. - dropped patch 18. - bailout of lock spinning in case of NMI (Gleb) - drop out patch 18 whose benefits are inconclusive (Gleb, I...

...ti basse... E' arrivata un'infermiera con due braccia cosi', che ha iniziato a massaggiare, tirare, spostare... Un dolore! Alla fine le ho detto: "Signora, faccia un po' di attenzione! Magari per lei e' uno dei tanti, ma per me e' l'unico!". -- Commendator Attilio Bossolazzi (Giorgio Faletti)

...are welcome. github link: https://github.com/ktraghavendra/linux/tree/pvspinlock_v11 Please note that we set SPIN_THRESHOLD = 32k with this series, that would eatup little bit of overcommit performance of PLE machines and overall performance of non-PLE machines. The older series[3] was tested by Attilio for Xen implementation. Note that Konrad needs to revert below two patches to enable xen on hvm 70dd4998, f10cd522c Jeremy Fitzhardinge (9): x86/spinlock: Replace pv spinlocks with pv ticketlocks x86/ticketlock: Collapse a layer of functions xen: Defer spinlock setup until boot CPU setup x...

...are welcome. github link: https://github.com/ktraghavendra/linux/tree/pvspinlock_v11 Please note that we set SPIN_THRESHOLD = 32k with this series, that would eatup little bit of overcommit performance of PLE machines and overall performance of non-PLE machines. The older series[3] was tested by Attilio for Xen implementation. Note that Konrad needs to revert below two patches to enable xen on hvm 70dd4998, f10cd522c Jeremy Fitzhardinge (9): x86/spinlock: Replace pv spinlocks with pv ticketlocks x86/ticketlock: Collapse a layer of functions xen: Defer spinlock setup until boot CPU setup x...

...are welcome. github link: https://github.com/ktraghavendra/linux/tree/pvspinlock_v11 Please note that we set SPIN_THRESHOLD = 32k with this series, that would eatup little bit of overcommit performance of PLE machines and overall performance of non-PLE machines. The older series[3] was tested by Attilio for Xen implementation. Note that Konrad needs to revert below two patches to enable xen on hvm 70dd4998, f10cd522c Jeremy Fitzhardinge (9): x86/spinlock: Replace pv spinlocks with pv ticketlocks x86/ticketlock: Collapse a layer of functions xen: Defer spinlock setup until boot CPU setup x...

...re welcome. github link: https://github.com/ktraghavendra/linux/tree/pvspinlock_v10 Please note that we set SPIN_THRESHOLD = 32k with this series, that would eatup little bit of overcommit performance of PLE machines and overall performance of non-PLE machines. The older series[2] was tested by Attilio for Xen implementation. Jeremy Fitzhardinge (9): x86/spinlock: Replace pv spinlocks with pv ticketlocks x86/ticketlock: Collapse a layer of functions xen: Defer spinlock setup until boot CPU setup xen/pvticketlock: Xen implementation for PV ticket locks xen/pvticketlocks: Add xen_nopvspin par...