From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755452Ab0FCTo4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jun 2010 15:44:56 -0400 Received: from claw.goop.org ([74.207.240.146]:57112 "EHLO claw.goop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754326Ab0FCToz (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jun 2010 15:44:55 -0400 Message-ID: <4C080636.9060508@goop.org> Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2010 12:44:54 -0700 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100430 Fedora/3.0.4-2.fc12 Lightning/1.0b2pre Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stefano Stabellini CC: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" , Don Dutile , Sheng Yang Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/12] PV on HVM Xen References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 06/03/2010 06:07 AM, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > Hi all, > the last update on the PV on HVM Xen series contains the following > changes: > > - some variables and functions have been renamed following Jeremy's > suggestions, in particular: > s/init_shared_info/xen_hvm_init_shared_info > s/xen_platform_pci/xen_platform_pci_enabled > s/UNPLUG_/XEN_UNPLUG_ > > - the two platform_pci.h header files have been merged and the useless > intro has been removed; > > - the xen platform pci product number and driver versions have been made > static; > > - the description on the VIRQ_TIMER patch has been improved; > > - a new patch to fix hpet behaviour has been introduced: hpet_disable is > called unconditionally on machine shutdown, and doesn't check whether > hpet has been actually enabled, causing trouble if it hasn't; > > - the vector callback patch has been improved: we don't use the ipi > vector anymore but we allocate our own so that we can avoid useless and > expensive vlapic acks. > I think they're worse than that; I think they could end up potentially acking a pending interrupt which hasn't been delivered yet. > > Meanwhile the vector callback patch for xen has been checked into > xen-unstable, so you don't need a separate patch for xen anymore to take > full advantage of this patch series. > > A git tree is available here: > > git://xenbits.xen.org/people/sstabellini/linux-pvhvm.git > > branch name 2.6.34-pvhvm-v3. > Thanks, J