From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
To: Keir Fraser <keir.xen@gmail.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00 of 12] xenpaging fixes for xen-unstable
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 15:38:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110607133847.GA15418@aepfle.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA13D7CD.1BB88%keir.xen@gmail.com>
On Tue, Jun 07, Keir Fraser wrote:
> Once they're in, what is left to do? Do you need help with the in-Xen
> waitqueue stuff? Do you have test cases that fail, a private patch queue,
> etc?
Keir,
I have no new patches, just returned to xenpaging end of last week.
A few months ago I collected my TODO list below.
One thing that I would need help with is the machine_to_phys_mapping[]
handling, an attempt to fix it was reverted before the 4.1 release. See
the thread in the URL below.
My testcase was a SLES11SP1 pv-on-hvm guest, rebooted in an endless
loop. That catched all of the issues. With the
waitqueue/HVMCOPY_gfn_paged_out issue its best to customize the
xenpaging policy to page the range of gfns were the guest pagetables are
stored.
I will send a series of patches to try later.
Olaf
Todo:
- implement xl support
- implement stopping of xenpaging
- implement live migration
- implement config option for XENPAGING_DEBUG and XENPAGING_POLICY_MRU_SIZE
- implement config option for xenpaging_dir
- implement better starting gfn in xenpaging policy
an initial gfn number in the middle of the gfn range may avoid page-ins
during BIOS startup
- fix machine_to_phys_mapping[] array handling during page deallocation
the gfn of a released page must be maintained properly in the array
http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2011-01/msg00824.html
- fix HVMCOPY_gfn_paged_out handling
some callers of __hvm_copy() do not handle HVMCOPY_gfn_paged_out, such
as hypercalls and the MMIO emulation
the recently added waitqueue feature in Xen 4.1 should be used
- remove all retry code from gfn_to_mfn() calls
use the waitqueue feature to hide page-in from the caller and cover
all cases where a retry is currently missing
- do not bounce p2mt to xenpaging
p2m_mem_paging_populate/p2m_mem_paging_resume dont make use of p2mt
- cleanup typeof gfn which is passed around in xenpaging
unsigned long, uint64_t, xen_pfn_t
- cleanup return types of functions
some functions return 0 unconditionally, could be void
- remove srand function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-07 13:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-07 9:53 [PATCH 00 of 12] xenpaging fixes for xen-unstable Olaf Hering
2011-06-07 9:53 ` [PATCH 01 of 12] xenpaging: correct dropping of pages to avoid full ring buffer Olaf Hering
2011-06-07 9:53 ` [PATCH 02 of 12] xenpaging: do not bounce p2mt to xenpaging Olaf Hering
2011-06-07 9:53 ` [PATCH 03 of 12] xenpaging: remove srand call Olaf Hering
2011-06-07 9:53 ` [PATCH 04 of 12] xenpaging: remove return values from functions that can not fail Olaf Hering
2011-06-07 9:53 ` [PATCH 05 of 12] xenpaging: catch xc_mem_paging_resume errors Olaf Hering
2011-06-07 9:53 ` [PATCH 06 of 12] xenpaging: remove local domain_id variable Olaf Hering
2011-06-07 9:53 ` [PATCH 07 of 12] xenpaging: move num_pages into xenpaging struct Olaf Hering
2011-06-07 9:53 ` [PATCH 08 of 12] xenpaging: start paging in the middle of gfn range Olaf Hering
2011-06-07 9:53 ` [PATCH 09 of 12] xenpaging: pass integer to xenpaging_populate_page Olaf Hering
2011-06-07 9:53 ` [PATCH 10 of 12] xenpaging: add helper function for unlinking pagefile Olaf Hering
2011-06-07 9:53 ` [PATCH 11 of 12] xenpaging: add watch thread to catch guest shutdown Olaf Hering
2011-06-07 10:23 ` Ian Campbell
2011-06-07 19:07 ` Olaf Hering
2011-06-07 9:53 ` [PATCH 12 of 12] xenpaging: implement stopping of pager by sending SIGTERM/SIGINT Olaf Hering
2011-06-07 12:27 ` [PATCH 00 of 12] xenpaging fixes for xen-unstable Keir Fraser
2011-06-07 13:38 ` Olaf Hering [this message]
2011-06-08 16:01 ` Keir Fraser
2011-06-10 7:28 ` Keir Fraser
2011-06-10 11:27 ` Olaf Hering
2011-06-10 12:52 ` Keir Fraser
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