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Hi Andrew, This patch series adds to the end of the existing i386-gdt-cleanups patches: allow-per-cpu-variables-to-be-page-aligned.patch i386-gdt-cleanups-use-per-cpu-variables-for-gdt-pda.patch i386-gdt-cleanups-use-per-cpu-gdt-immediately-upon-boot.patch i386-gdt-cleanups-use-per-cpu-gdt-immediately-upon-boot-fix.patch i386-gdt-cleanups-clean-up-cpu_init.patch

Hi Andrew, This patch series adds to the end of the existing i386-gdt-cleanups patches: allow-per-cpu-variables-to-be-page-aligned.patch i386-gdt-cleanups-use-per-cpu-variables-for-gdt-pda.patch i386-gdt-cleanups-use-per-cpu-gdt-immediately-upon-boot.patch i386-gdt-cleanups-use-per-cpu-gdt-immediately-upon-boot-fix.patch i386-gdt-cleanups-clean-up-cpu_init.patch

Hi Andi, This is a series of patches based on your latest queue (as of the other day, at least). It includes: - the most recent patch to compute the appropriate amount of percpu space to allocate, using a separate reservation for modules where needed. - make the percpu sections page-aligned, so that percpu variables can be page aligned if needed (which is used by gdt_page) -

Hi Andi, This is a series of patches based on your latest queue (as of the other day, at least). It includes: - the most recent patch to compute the appropriate amount of percpu space to allocate, using a separate reservation for modules where needed. - make the percpu sections page-aligned, so that percpu variables can be page aligned if needed (which is used by gdt_page) -

Hi Andi, This is a set of updates for the firstfloor patch queue. Quick rundown: revert-mm-x86_64-mm-account-for-module-percpu-space-separately-from-kernel-percpu.patch separate-module-percpu-space.patch Update the module percpu accounting patch fix-ff-allow-percpu-variables-to-be-page-aligned.patch Make sure the percpu memory allocation is page-aligned

Hi Andi, This is a set of updates for the firstfloor patch queue. Quick rundown: revert-mm-x86_64-mm-account-for-module-percpu-space-separately-from-kernel-percpu.patch separate-module-percpu-space.patch Update the module percpu accounting patch fix-ff-allow-percpu-variables-to-be-page-aligned.patch Make sure the percpu memory allocation is page-aligned

Hi Jeremy, all, Sorry this took so long, spent last week in Japan at OSDL conf then netconf. After several false starts, I ended up with a very simple implementation, which clashes significantly with your work since then 8(. I've pushed the patches anyway, but it's going to be significant work for me to re-merge them, so I wanted your feedback first. The first patch simply changes

Hi Jeremy, all, Sorry this took so long, spent last week in Japan at OSDL conf then netconf. After several false starts, I ended up with a very simple implementation, which clashes significantly with your work since then 8(. I've pushed the patches anyway, but it's going to be significant work for me to re-merge them, so I wanted your feedback first. The first patch simply changes

OK, here it is. Benchmarks still coming. This is against Andi's 2.6.18-rc7-git3 tree, and replaces the patches between (and not including) i386-pda-asm-offsets and i386-early-fault. One patch is identical, one is mildly modified, the rest are re-implemented but inspired by Jeremy's PDA work. Thanks, Rusty. -- Help! Save Australia from the worst of the DMCA: http://linux.org.au/law

OK, here it is. Benchmarks still coming. This is against Andi's 2.6.18-rc7-git3 tree, and replaces the patches between (and not including) i386-pda-asm-offsets and i386-early-fault. One patch is identical, one is mildly modified, the rest are re-implemented but inspired by Jeremy's PDA work. Thanks, Rusty. -- Help! Save Australia from the worst of the DMCA: http://linux.org.au/law

Hi Andrew, This series of patches lays the basic ground work for the paravirtualized kernel patches coming later on. I think this lot is ready for the rough-and-tumble world of the -mm tree. The main change from the last posting is that all the page-table related patches have been moved out, and will be posted separately. Also, the off-by-one in reserving the top of address space has been

Hi Andrew, This series of patches lays the basic ground work for the paravirtualized kernel patches coming later on. I think this lot is ready for the rough-and-tumble world of the -mm tree. The main change from the last posting is that all the page-table related patches have been moved out, and will be posted separately. Also, the off-by-one in reserving the top of address space has been

Seems to work OK for native and Xen. I had to play a bit with the paravirt-sched-clock patch to deal with the VMI changes. Zach, can you check that it still works? Thanks, J

Seems to work OK for native and Xen. I had to play a bit with the paravirt-sched-clock patch to deal with the VMI changes. Zach, can you check that it still works? Thanks, J

Index: linux-2.6.16-rc5/Documentation/vmi_spec.txt =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.16-rc5.orig/Documentation/vmi_spec.txt 2006-03-09 23:33:29.000000000 -0800 +++ linux-2.6.16-rc5/Documentation/vmi_spec.txt 2006-03-10 12:55:29.000000000 -0800 @@ -0,0 +1,2197 @@ + + Paravirtualization API Version 2.0 + + Zachary Amsden, Daniel Arai, Daniel Hecht,

Index: linux-2.6.16-rc5/Documentation/vmi_spec.txt =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.16-rc5.orig/Documentation/vmi_spec.txt 2006-03-09 23:33:29.000000000 -0800 +++ linux-2.6.16-rc5/Documentation/vmi_spec.txt 2006-03-10 12:55:29.000000000 -0800 @@ -0,0 +1,2197 @@ + + Paravirtualization API Version 2.0 + + Zachary Amsden, Daniel Arai, Daniel Hecht,

Add a smp_ops interface. This abstracts the API defined by <linux/smp.h> for use within arch/i386. The primary intent is that it be used by a paravirtualizing hypervisor to implement SMP, but it could also be used by non-APIC-using sub-architectures. This is related to CONFIG_PARAVIRT, but is implemented unconditionally since it is simpler that way and not a highly performance-sensitive

Add a smp_ops interface. This abstracts the API defined by <linux/smp.h> for use within arch/i386. The primary intent is that it be used by a paravirtualizing hypervisor to implement SMP, but it could also be used by non-APIC-using sub-architectures. This is related to CONFIG_PARAVIRT, but is implemented unconditionally since it is simpler that way and not a highly performance-sensitive

Hi folks, Here is the result of the latest work on the pvops front, after the x86 arch merge. From the functionality point of view, almost nothing was changed, except for proper vsmp support - which was discussed, but not implemented before - and the introduction of smp_ops in x86_64, which eased the merging of the smp header. Speaking of the merge, a significant part (although not majority) of

Hi folks, Here is the result of the latest work on the pvops front, after the x86 arch merge. From the functionality point of view, almost nothing was changed, except for proper vsmp support - which was discussed, but not implemented before - and the introduction of smp_ops in x86_64, which eased the merging of the smp header. Speaking of the merge, a significant part (although not majority) of