From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: "Gabriel L. Somlo" <gsomlo@gmail.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kvm-kmod and kernels 3.11.*
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 16:12:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52AB23DF.2000509@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52AB21F2.1030005@siemens.com>
Il 13/12/2013 16:04, Jan Kiszka ha scritto:
> Yes, kvm-kmod is starting to bitrot. I just noticed I messed up the last
> stable release back in August, and no one seems to have noticed it.
> There were no complains about the missing releases for 3.11 and 3.12, so
> it the relevance must have dropped significantly.
I think the relevance of releases is ~zero. kvm-kmod still remains
extremely useful IMHO as a hacking tool.
> kvm-kmod is still useful for hacking, so I'm considering to stop
> providing releases (except for a final 3.10.21), just updates in git to
> allow wrapping of latest kvm head on recent kernels.
Yes, git can be good enough for distribution.
> There are breakages
> with kernels < 3.0 now, about which I personally do not care anymore, so
> lifting the entrance level to 3.0 seems reasonable.
Agreed on this as well. Personally I would be fine even with only 3-4
releases backwards compatibility (e.g. 3.8) right now.
>> > For completeness, here is the patch I am using right now.
> Is there anything in your patch that is still required with current
> kvm-kmod next? Then I would be happy about a patch!
Your next branch works for me. The only difference between my patch and
your origin/next is that I'm copying
%(linux)s/arch/%(arch)s/include/uapi/asm/msr-index.h'
and you have
+
+#ifndef MSR_IA32_VMX_MISC_PREEMPTION_TIMER_SCALE
+#define MSR_IA32_VMX_MISC_PREEMPTION_TIMER_SCALE 0x1F
+#endif
Everything else is roughly the same. Thanks for maintaining kvm-kmod!
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-13 15:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-12 21:27 kvm-kmod and kernels 3.11.* Gabriel L. Somlo
2013-12-12 21:59 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-12-13 15:04 ` Jan Kiszka
2013-12-13 15:12 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2013-12-13 15:36 ` Jan Kiszka
2013-12-13 16:19 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2013-12-13 16:24 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-12-13 16:26 ` Jan Kiszka
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