From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Subject: Re: linux kernel 2.6.37 Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 10:30:56 -0500 Message-ID: <20110121153056.GA4698@dumpdata.com> References: <4D384204020000260001866B@hibbing.edu> <1295554269.22720.6.camel@mobile> <20110120201937.GR2754@reaktio.net> <1295563321.22720.17.camel@mobile> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1295563321.22720.17.camel@mobile> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Vasiliy G Tolstov Cc: Don Brearley , xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 01:42:01AM +0300, Vasiliy G Tolstov wrote: > On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 22:19 +0200, Pasi K=E4rkk=E4inen wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:11:09PM +0300, Vasiliy G Tolstov wrote: > > > On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 14:09 -0600, Don Brearley wrote: > > > >=20 > > > > FWIW, I was able to successfully boot PV domU guests while using = Xen > > > > 4.0.2-rc2-pre and > > > > 2.6.37-rc7 from the git repo > > > >=20 > > > > The problem I encountered was the lack of netback support. Could= n't > > > > get any > > > > network interfaces to come up. Whoops :) Otherwise it seemed fi= ne, > > > > but I didnt > > > > run the guests very long.=20 > > > >=20 > > > > Hope that helps! > > > > - Don > > >=20 > > > Sorry, i mean domU, not dom0 =3D). I can try to move from 2.6.32 fr= om > > > jeremy to vanilla 2.6.37... > > >=20 > >=20 > > Yeah, please try it and let us know if you find any issues. > >=20 > > One day in the (hopefully near) future we'll set up automatic > > upstream (Linus) kernel testing.. so we can catch possible regression= s/bugs early > > during the -rc phase and "final" releases are known to be good.. > >=20 > > -- Pasi > >=20 >=20 >=20 > Interesting thing appeared: > domU pv running with memory=3D512 and maxmem=3D4096 >=20 > after kernel is booted i see in /var/log/messages > Memory: 377324k/4202496k available (4125k kernel code, 448k absent, > 3824724k reserved, 1636k data, 640k init) >=20 > total used free shared buffers cache= d > Mem: 372 264 107 0 29 > 119 > -/+ buffers/cache: 116 256 > Swap: 4996 0 4996 >=20 > xm list says that xen allocated 512M of ram to domain > Why xen steals 140M of memory? Do you see any messages during bootup about memory being returned? Look f= or xen_release_chunk .. and pages freed ? >=20 >=20 > _______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel