From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754433AbXDWWuN (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Apr 2007 18:50:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754440AbXDWWuN (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Apr 2007 18:50:13 -0400 Received: from mx1.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:45675 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754433AbXDWWuL (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Apr 2007 18:50:11 -0400 From: Andi Kleen Organization: SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Nuernberg, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/25] xen: Xen implementation for paravirt_ops Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 00:50:06 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Cc: Andrew Morton , virtualization@lists.osdl.org, lkml References: <20070423215638.563901986@goop.org> In-Reply-To: <20070423215638.563901986@goop.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200704240050.06615.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday 23 April 2007 23:56:38 Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > Hi Andi, > > It applies to 2.6.21-rc7 + your patches + the last batch of pv_ops > patches I got most of those except for the broken sched_clock change. > I posted. How much testing outside Jeremylabs has it gotten? Some beta testing before merging would be good, otherwise we'll just have a flood of fixes shortly when it is exposed to users. > This patch generally restricts itself to Xen-specific parts of the tree, > though it does make a few small changes elsewhere. The general problem is that it is much more than just an architecture update. > These patches include: > - some helper routines for allocating address space and walking pagetables Needs review from mm people. > - Xen interface header files > - Core Xen implementation > - Efficient late-pinning/early-unpinning pagetable handling The number of new paravirt hooks makes me thing of renaming it to everything_ops @| > - Virtualized time, including stolen time Can you let it be reviewed by the time people? (Thomas, Ingo, John, Roman etc.) > - SMP support > - Preemption support > - Batched pagetable updates > - Xen console, based on hvc console > - Xenbus That one would need to be reviewed first. It's so much code that I can't do it all myself. > - Netfront, the paravirtualized network device That one should go through the network device maintainer/netdev. > - Blockfront, the paravirtualized block device And that needs a block device review and whoever maintains that (Jens?) -Andi