Re: Release 0.9.8 of GPL PV Drivers for Windows

[Joost van den Broek <jvandenbroek@gmail.com>]

James Harper schreef:
> I've just uploaded 0.9.8 to http://www.meadowcourt.org/downloads
>
> As a reminder, the wiki page is
> http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenWindowsGplPv
>
> This release fixes a bug which could be hit under high disk load (high
> number of outstanding requests with fragmented sg lists) and would
> reduce performance dramatically - my iometer testing went from 23MB/s to
> 0.5MB/s!
>
> Also, xenvbd will now dump some stats to the kernel debug logs (use
> debugview from sysinternals to view these) every 60 seconds. I'm not
> sure how useful these might be yet.
>
> James
>
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Well after upgrading 0.9.6 (actually, first uninstalled those with the 
pre-0.9.0 instructies because of bsod when doing normal upgrade) I get 
instant lockups when doing anything I/O intensive! The domU will use 
100% CPU and just hangs forever as it seems (destroyed it after 5 min). 
The previous 0.9.6 seemed to be pretty stable, no lockups or whatsoever 
(and I'd already liked it's HD performance!) So not sure what's going 
wrong here, but in the meantime I get back to 0.9.6 (or I'll might also 
test 0.9.7 to clear things up).

Joost