Re: Xen 4.5 Development Update (RC4)

[Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>]

On 26/12/2014 12:20, Sander Eikelenboom wrote:
> Tuesday, December 23, 2014, 4:10:12 PM, you wrote:
>
>
>> On 19/12/2014 18:14, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
>>> On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 03:19:44PM +0000, Andrew Cooper wrote:
>>>> There will be another full nightly test happening tonight (based on c/s
>>>> 7e88c23 "libxl: Tell qemu to use raw format when using a tapdisk"), and
>>>> some stress and scale tests if time allows.
>>> Yeey! thank you for getting to this!
>> Results are in from the latest nighties, and looking good.  No
>> identifiable differences between Xen 4.4 and 4.5
>> There are also no identified differences in the scale and performance tests.
>> ~Andrew
> Hi Andrew,
>
> Was this from a debug=y or debug=n build for both versions ?

Both for both sets of tests.  XenServer, as of 6.5, contains both a 
debug and non-debug hypervisor, built from identical source.

In trunk, the debug hypervisor is used by default.  Tests such as 
performance tests explicitly switch to the non-debug hypervisor as part 
of their setup.

~Andrew