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Re: [Xen-devel] Performance numbers on PV-on-HVM

To: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Performance numbers on PV-on-HVM
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2010 12:23:14 -0700
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 On 10/04/2010 10:08 AM, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Oct 2010, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
>> On Fri, 1 Oct 2010, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>>>>> Hopefully Jeremy merges 2.6.32-pvhvm to xen/stable-2.6.32.x branch..
>>>>  
>>>> The problem is that Jeremy's stable branch is sufficiently different
>>>> from stable 2.6.32 that the port in non-trivial.
>>>> It would probably easier for him to cherry-pick the last 6 patches in
>>>> the series.
>>> I tried this, but it is a bit awkward:
>>>
>>> Two of them have already been applied verbatim.
>>>
>>> The blkfront name patch clashes with something similar that's already in
>>> xen/next (the version I currently have does xlbd_reserve_minors(), but
>>> this branch's patch doesn't).  I don't know which version to take.
>>>
>> just take the latest version
>>
>>> The hvc console patches clash fairly badly with the dom0 ones; nothing
>>> fundamental, but fiddly.
>> skip them for now: they are not critical and at some point I'll rebase
>> them on top of the "xen initial domain" series that has dom0 hvc_xen
>> support and you'll be able to pull them without conflicts.
>>
>>> The balloon.c changes clash with the largepage ballooning stuff.
>>>
>>  
>> I have reworked the balloon patch on top of stable 2.6.32, I am attaching
>> the patch to this email.
>
> of course if you would like me to prepare a branch on top of
> stable-2.6.32.x I can do that as well

A resolved merge would be better than rebasing onto stable-2.6.32.x.

    J


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