Re: [HYBRID]: status update...

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 04:25:01PM +0100, George Dunlap wrote:
> I hope this isn't bikeshedding; but I don't like "Hybrid" as a name
> for this feature, mainly for "marketing" reasons.  I think it will
> probably give people the wrong idea about what the technology does.
> PV domains is one of Xen's really distinct advantages -- much simpler
> interface, lighter-weight (no qemu, legacy boot), &c &c.  As I
> understand it, the mode you've been calling "hybrid" still has all of
> these advantages -- it just uses some of the HVM hardware extensions
> to make the interface even simpler / faster.  I'm afraid "hybrid" may
> be seen as, "Even Xen has had to give up on PV."
> 
> Can I suggest something like "PVH" instead?  That (at least to me)
> makes it clear that PV domains are still fully PV, but just use some
> HVM extensions.

if (xen_pvh_domain()?

if (xen_pv_h_domain()?

if (xen_h_domain()) ?

if (xen_pvplus_domain()) ?

if (xen_pv_ext_domain()) ?

I think I like 'pv+'?

> 
> Thoughts?
> 
>  -George
> 
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 2:17 AM, Mukesh Rathor <mukesh.rathor@oracle.com> wrote:
> > Hi Guys,
> >
> > Just a quick status update. I refreshed my trees and then debugged as
> > the code had changed a lot. I'm again few weeks behind from the latest
> > tree on both linux and xen. After the refresh, I ran into few issues:
> >
> >    - xenstored is using gnttab interface that will not work for hybrid
> >      For now I just disabled it.
> >
> >    - libxl has changed a lot, so for now, I'm only supporting
> >           disk = ['phy:/dev/loop1,xvda,w']
> >
> >    - the struct pv_vcpu and hvm_vcpu are into a union now. I added a new
> >      type hyb_vcpu and now going thru the code changing all refs.
> >
> >    - on the linux side I managed to remove all changes to non-xen files,
> >      this should help a alot.
> >
> > Once I finish the changes for hyb_vcpu union, I should be able to get
> > things working again. Then I'll refresh the linux tree, keeping xen the
> > same, and test it all out and submit linux patch. After that I'll
> > refresh xen tree and keeping same linux, test it out, and submit patch.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mukesh
> >
> >
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