Re: Patch question (Hyper-Threading support)

[Elizeu Santos-Neto <elizeu@cs.uchicago.edu>]

	Hi all,

	Well, based on some quick inspections on the that I checked out from
the mercurial repository this afternoon, it seems that the HT support
has been already implemented. :-)

	Thus, here is a suggestion, it would be nice to make more details
available about who is doing what and in which phase of development
things are, this information could avoid duplicated efforts.

	Thanks,
	Eli

On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 19:15 -0600, Tim Freeman wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 13:30:18 -0600
> Elizeu Santos-Neto <elizeu@cs.uchicago.edu> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 	Hi community,
> > 
> > 	I've been working on modifying Xen and the Xen-Linux kernel to make
> > vCPU better represent Hyper-Threading physical CPUs, as I mentioned in a
> > previous post.
> > 
> > http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2006-01/msg00853.html
> > 
> > 	I produced some performance measurements and patches that might be
> > useful for some Hyper-Threading friendly workloads running on Xen. I'll
> > make the performance measurement report available soon.	
> > 
> > 	Basically, the modified files were:
> > 
> > 	xen/common/domain.c
> > 	xen/common/sched_bvt.c
> > 	xen/common/sched_sedf.c
> > 	xen/common/schedule.c
> > 	xen/include/public/vcpu.h
> > 	xen/include/xen/sched.h
> > 	xen/arch/x86/smpboot.c
> > 
> > 	How should I proceed to send the patch?
>  
> 
> There is a guide here: 
> 
> http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/SubmittingXenPatches
> 
> For examples, see:
> 
> http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/
> 
> Also see these guidelines: 
> 
> http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/tpp.txt
> http://linux.yyz.us/patch-format.html
> 
> I would think replying to your patch email with the performance measurement
> report would help keep them together for people. 
> 
> Tim 
> 
> 
>