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

The netfilter code had very good documentation: the Netfilter Hacking HOWTO. Noone ever read it. So this time I'm trying something different, using a bit of Knuthiness. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> --- Documentation/lguest/extract | 58 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Documentation/lguest/lguest.c | 9 +++-- drivers/lguest/Makefile

The netfilter code had very good documentation: the Netfilter Hacking HOWTO. Noone ever read it. So this time I'm trying something different, using a bit of Knuthiness. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> --- Documentation/lguest/extract | 58 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Documentation/lguest/lguest.c | 9 +++-- drivers/lguest/Makefile

As promised to Andrew, and with much thanks to Andi Kleen for feedback, this is the new series of lguest patches. Main change is the move to drivers/lguest (for future non-i386 expansion), but lots of cleanups driven by Andi's feedback and the documentation effort (which made me examine every line of code). It's not perfect, but it's definitely useful. Cheers, Rusty. List of

As promised to Andrew, and with much thanks to Andi Kleen for feedback, this is the new series of lguest patches. Main change is the move to drivers/lguest (for future non-i386 expansion), but lots of cleanups driven by Andi's feedback and the documentation effort (which made me examine every line of code). It's not perfect, but it's definitely useful. Cheers, Rusty. List of

Hi all, I've been working on lguest64 and in order to do this, I had to move a lot of the i386 specific out of the way. Well, the lguest64 port is still not ready to display, but before Rusty makes too many changes I would like this in upstream so I don't have to keep repeating my changes :-) So this patch series moves lguest32 out of the way for other archs. -- Steve

Hi all, I've been working on lguest64 and in order to do this, I had to move a lot of the i386 specific out of the way. Well, the lguest64 port is still not ready to display, but before Rusty makes too many changes I would like this in upstream so I don't have to keep repeating my changes :-) So this patch series moves lguest32 out of the way for other archs. -- Steve

[ Changes since last version. - Move lg.h to include/asm instead (suggested by Rusty Russel) - All steps of the series compiles (suggested by Stephen Rothwell) - Better ifdef header naming (suggested by Stephen Rothwell) - Added Andi Kleen to CC (forgot to on V1) ] Hi all, I've been working on lguest64 and in order to do this, I had to move a lot of the i386 specific out of the

[ Changes since last version. - Move lg.h to include/asm instead (suggested by Rusty Russel) - All steps of the series compiles (suggested by Stephen Rothwell) - Better ifdef header naming (suggested by Stephen Rothwell) - Added Andi Kleen to CC (forgot to on V1) ] Hi all, I've been working on lguest64 and in order to do this, I had to move a lot of the i386 specific out of the

Hi all, These are the patches I'm planning to submit for 2.6.24. Comments gratefully accepted. Along with the usual cleanups and improvements are Jes' de-i386-ification patches, and a new "virtio" mechanism designed to be shared with KVM (and hopefully other hypervisors). Cheers, Rusty. Documentation/lguest/Makefile | 30 Documentation/lguest/lguest.c

Hi all, These are the patches I'm planning to submit for 2.6.24. Comments gratefully accepted. Along with the usual cleanups and improvements are Jes' de-i386-ification patches, and a new "virtio" mechanism designed to be shared with KVM (and hopefully other hypervisors). Cheers, Rusty. Documentation/lguest/Makefile | 30 Documentation/lguest/lguest.c

Lguest currently requires a TSC, which breaks older machines and Matt Mackall who boots the host with "notsc". In addition, there is no good solution to changing TSC speeds (informing all the guests about the TSC impending change before it happens would be a great deal of code and have issues with disobedient guests). This patch makes the host determine if the TSC is both constant and

Lguest currently requires a TSC, which breaks older machines and Matt Mackall who boots the host with "notsc". In addition, there is no good solution to changing TSC speeds (informing all the guests about the TSC impending change before it happens would be a great deal of code and have issues with disobedient guests). This patch makes the host determine if the TSC is both constant and

1) Example code: old libc headers don't have SIOCBRADDIF, and old zlibs don't have gzdirect() -- it's a sanity check anyway. 2) Some people don't build in their source directories, so .config isn't there (thanks to Tony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com>). 3) Point out that guest and host kernel are usually the same. 4) Set the "no checksum" option on the

1) Example code: old libc headers don't have SIOCBRADDIF, and old zlibs don't have gzdirect() -- it's a sanity check anyway. 2) Some people don't build in their source directories, so .config isn't there (thanks to Tony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com>). 3) Point out that guest and host kernel are usually the same. 4) Set the "no checksum" option on the

The following patches are the latest update of the TSC and hrtimer patches I posted on 29/03. Rusty's original TSC patch has been resynced to the latest lguest repo, as has the hrtimer patch, which also incorporates feedback from Jeremy & Rusty: - Change clock event hrtimer to absolute time. 'now' is captured in the host during the hypercall. - Propagate -ETIME back to the

The following patches are the latest update of the TSC and hrtimer patches I posted on 29/03. Rusty's original TSC patch has been resynced to the latest lguest repo, as has the hrtimer patch, which also incorporates feedback from Jeremy & Rusty: - Change clock event hrtimer to absolute time. 'now' is captured in the host during the hypercall. - Propagate -ETIME back to the

From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> lguest is a simple hypervisor for Linux on Linux. Unlike kvm it doesn't need VT/SVM hardware. Unlike Xen it's simply "modprobe and go". Unlike both, it's 5000 lines and self-contained. Performance is ok, but not great (-30% on kernel compile). But given its hackability, I expect this to improve, along with the

From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> lguest is a simple hypervisor for Linux on Linux. Unlike kvm it doesn't need VT/SVM hardware. Unlike Xen it's simply "modprobe and go". Unlike both, it's 5000 lines and self-contained. Performance is ok, but not great (-30% on kernel compile). But given its hackability, I expect this to improve, along with the

When Zach Amsden added PARAVIRT_LAZY_FLUSH I didn't realize how often it would get called. We only need to do something if we're actually in lazy mode. Before: Time for one context switch via pipe: 10509 (9863 - 18761) Time for one Copy-on-Write fault: 71796 (20625 - 207750) Time to exec client once: 1076218 (1066203 - 1085937) Time for one fork/exit/wait: 1193125 (574750 - 1197750) Time

When Zach Amsden added PARAVIRT_LAZY_FLUSH I didn't realize how often it would get called. We only need to do something if we're actually in lazy mode. Before: Time for one context switch via pipe: 10509 (9863 - 18761) Time for one Copy-on-Write fault: 71796 (20625 - 207750) Time to exec client once: 1076218 (1066203 - 1085937) Time for one fork/exit/wait: 1193125 (574750 - 1197750) Time