On 17 Sep 2010, at 02:44, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > At Spectra Logic, we are using FreeBSD amd64 under Xen to serve storage > to other Xen domains. Over the past 9 months, we've made several changes > to FreeBSD's Xen support. These include: > > o Support for backend devices (e.g. blkback) > o Extensions to the Xen para-virtualized block API to allow for larger > and more outstanding I/Os. > o A completely rewritten block back driver with support for fronting > I/O to both raw devices and files. > o General cleanup and documentation of the XenBus and XenStore support code. > o Robustness and performance updates for the block front driver. > o Fixes to the netfront driver. > > Some of these changes have already been pushed back into FreeBSD, but the > bulk of them need additional testing, especially under i386 PV, before > they can be committed. If you work in the Xen area, I'd appreciate your > review and/or testing of these changes. > > http://people.freebsd.org/~gibbs/FreeBSD-head-xen-diffs_2010_09_16.txt
Justin, this is quite a big diff (16k lines). I wonder if you can create separate diffs (xenstore, blkback, xenbus, etc.) for easier review and commenting. Regards, -- Rui Paulo _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
