On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 02:34:35PM +0000, Ren, Yongjie
wrote:> Hi All,
> We did a round testing for Xen 4.2 RC1 (CS#25692) with Linux 3.4.7 dom0.
> We covered VT-d, SR-IOV, Power Management, TXT, IVB new features, HSW new
features.
> We covered many cases for HVM guests (both Redhat Linux and MS Windows
guest).
> We tested on Westmere-EP, SandyBridge-EP, IvyBridge desktop, and Haswell
hardware platforms.
> We found no new issues, and verified 1 fixed bug.
Cool!>
> Fixed bug (1):
> 1. parameter ''maxvcpus'' causes hvm guest boots up with
wrong vcpu number
> http://bugzilla.xen.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1825
> -- Fixed by Yang from Intel.
>
> The following are some of the old issues which we guess are something
important.
> Some of the old issues:
> 1. long stop during the guest boot process (too slow bootup)
> http://bugzilla.xen.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1821
> 2. Poor performance when do guest save/restore and migration with linux 3.x
dom0
> http://bugzilla.xen.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1784
> 3. ''xl vcpu-set'' can''t decrease the vCPU number
of a HVM guest
> http://bugzilla.xen.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1822
> 4. after detaching a VF from a guest, shutdown the guest is very slow
> http://bugzilla.xen.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1812
> 5. Dom0 cannot be shutdown before PCI detachment from guest and when pci
assignment conflicts
> (xl allows same PCI device to be assigned to multiple guests)
> http://bugzilla.xen.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1826
> 6. Guest hang after resuming from S3
> http://bugzilla.xen.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1828
So those that are Linux related are going to have to wait. I am ..swamped.
The merge window just closed and its time to deal with regressions. Is there
way for Intel engineers in helping to come up with a patch for some of
these issues?