From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Andres Lagar-Cavilla" Subject: Re: [PATCH 00 of 13] Sharing overhaul V4 Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:08:30 -0800 Message-ID: <179809993fc3f368ab813d31f07d5940.squirrel@webmail.lagarcavilla.org> References: <20120126125435.GB74165@ocelot.phlegethon.org> Reply-To: andres@lagarcavilla.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20120126125435.GB74165@ocelot.phlegethon.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Tim Deegan Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, ian.campbell@citrix.com, andres@gridcentric.ca, keir.xen@gmail.com, jbeulich@suse.com, ian.jackson@citrix.com, adin@gridcentric.ca List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org > At 22:32 -0500 on 25 Jan (1327530744), Andres Lagar-Cavilla wrote: >> This patch series brings about a set of changes to the sharing support >> in the hypervisor and tools. Specifically: >> >> - Granular scalable locking: lock mfn's individually when >> sharing/unsharing >> them. Do not rely on a global lock. Use RCU to maintain a list of all >> shared frames for audit purposes. >> >> - Refreshed stats: they now work (tm), and are accesible via libxc >> and console. >> >> - libxl/xl support to get sharing stats. >> >> - New sharing command "add to physmap", to directly populate a new >> domain >> with shared frames. >> >> - Toolstack and memshr kept in sync. > > Applied all except #12; thank you. > > Tools maintainers, I think it would be a good idea to take #12 as well, > in spite of the commit message saying 'not necessarily expecting it be > added to the tree', in order to have an in-tree consumer of these > interfaces. Excellent, thanks. Patch 12 is demo code. Nice to have, but neither critical nor particularly clean... Cheers, Andres > > Cheers, > > Tim. >