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Re: [Xen-devel] Patch question (Hyper-Threading support)

        Hi Tim,

        Thanks a lot. I'm going to prepare the patches and send the report
together.

        Regards,
        Eli

On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 19:15 -0600, Tim Freeman wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 13:30:18 -0600
> Elizeu Santos-Neto <elizeu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > 
> >     Hi community,
> > 
> >     I've been working on modifying Xen and the Xen-Linux kernel to make
> > vCPU better represent Hyper-Threading physical CPUs, as I mentioned in a
> > previous post.
> > 
> > http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2006-01/msg00853.html
> > 
> >     I produced some performance measurements and patches that might be
> > useful for some Hyper-Threading friendly workloads running on Xen. I'll
> > make the performance measurement report available soon.     
> > 
> >     Basically, the modified files were:
> > 
> >     xen/common/domain.c
> >     xen/common/sched_bvt.c
> >     xen/common/sched_sedf.c
> >     xen/common/schedule.c
> >     xen/include/public/vcpu.h
> >     xen/include/xen/sched.h
> >     xen/arch/x86/smpboot.c
> > 
> >     How should I proceed to send the patch?
>  
> 
> There is a guide here: 
> 
> http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/SubmittingXenPatches
> 
> For examples, see:
> 
> http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/
> 
> Also see these guidelines: 
> 
> http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/tpp.txt
> http://linux.yyz.us/patch-format.html
> 
> I would think replying to your patch email with the performance measurement
> report would help keep them together for people. 
> 
> Tim 
> 
> 
> 


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