Hello Konrad,
Friday, March 11, 2011, 3:24:21 PM, you wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 12:34:03PM +0100, Sander Eikelenboom wrote:
>> Hello Ian,
>>
>> Friday, March 11, 2011, 12:03:39 PM, you wrote:
>>
>> > On Fri, 2011-03-11 at 10:57 +0000, Sander Eikelenboom wrote:
>> >> Hi All,
>> >>
>> >> I have lost a bit of track on what (backend) features are scheduled for
>> >> the 2.6.39 merge window.
>>
>> > Konrad posted a state of the world for this last night, see the thread
>> > "2.6.39 merge window (git pulls and what is planned to go in)"
>>
>> >> Of special interest for me:
>>
>> > I'm afraid you are rather out of luck in that respect :-(
>>
>> >> - blkback (tapdisk2?)
>>
>> > Not planned for 2.6.39.
>>
>> >> - netback
>>
>> > Under review on the netdev list, might still make it.
>>
>> >> - pciback
>>
>> > Not planned for 2.6.39.
>>
>> > FWIW blkback, netback and pciback all have relatively clean branches
>> > which could be pulled in for testing purposes though.
>>
>> Hmmm looking at Konrad's git tree, the master tree seems to be just that in
>> this case :-)
>> Will try it later this weekend.
> Yeah, except that it does not work right now with legacy IRQ (like USB
> devices)
> passthrough - just found out about that yesterday when I started running it
> through the paces.
> But it works fine for PV, HVM, and Dom 0 case.
Ok I will give it a spin then and will leave the passthrough VM's out.
Good to know about the legacy IRQ problem, and a bit unfortunate that the
msi-irq patches for ohci/ehci controllers didn't make it in, due to objection
of Greg KH, since he saw no direct advantages.
Will let you know how it went ..
--
Sander
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