Re: [RFC Patch 00/12] IXGBE: Add live migration support for SRIOV NIC

2015-10-22 Thread Or Gerlitz
On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 10:20 PM, Alex Williamson wrote: > This is why the typical VF agnostic approach here is to using bonding > and fail over to a emulated device during migration, so performance > suffers, but downtime is something acceptable. bonding in the VM isn't a zero touch solution, r

Re: [RFC Patch 00/12] IXGBE: Add live migration support for SRIOV NIC

2015-10-21 Thread Or Gerlitz
On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 7:37 PM, Lan Tianyu wrote: > This patchset is to propose a new solution to add live migration support > for 82599 SRIOV network card. > In our solution, we prefer to put all device specific operation into VF and > PF driver and make code in the Qemu more general. [...] >

Re: [RFC/RFT PATCH v3 0/4] KVM: x86: full virtualization of guest MTRR

2015-07-29 Thread Or Gerlitz
On 7/8/2015 6:18 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: This part of the MTRR patches was dropped by Xiao. Bring SVM on feature parity with VMX, and then do guest MTRR virtualization for both VMX and SVM. The IPAT bit of VMX extended page tables is emulated by mangling the guest PAT value. I do not have any

Re: [PATCH qemu-kvm] Add raw(af_packet) network backend to qemu

2010-02-01 Thread Or Gerlitz
Anthony Liguori wrote: Considering VEPA enabled hardware doesn't exist today and the standards aren't even finished being defined, I don't think it's a really strong use case ;-) Anthony, VEPA enabled NIC hardware is live and kicking, maybe even @ your onboard 1Gbs NIC: the intel 82576 (<--

Re: [PATCH qemu-kvm] Add raw(af_packet) network backend to qemu

2010-01-28 Thread Or Gerlitz
Sridhar Samudrala wrote: On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 22:39 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: we already have -net socket,fd and any user that passes an fd into that already knows what he wants to do with it. Making it work with raw sockets is just a natural extension to this Didn't realize that -net socke

[PATCHv4 3/6] qemu/net: add raw backend

2009-11-02 Thread Or Gerlitz
on an external library - we have access to the underlying file descriptor which makes it possible to connect to vhost net - don't support polling all interfaces, always bind to a specific one Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin --- hw/virtio-net.c |3 +- net.c

Re: [PATCHv3 0/2] vhost: a kernel-level virtio server

2009-08-20 Thread Or Gerlitz
Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: Yes. master okay, will get testing this later next week. Any chance you can provide some packet-per-second numbers (netperf udp stream with small packets)? Or. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vge

Re: [PATCHv3 0/2] vhost: a kernel-level virtio server

2009-08-19 Thread Or Gerlitz
Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: No, these patches are on top of Avi's kvm.git so are they on top of some branch in Avi's kvm.git which is planned to be merged for 2.6.32? what branch should I use? Or. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to m

Re: [PATCHv3 0/2] vhost: a kernel-level virtio server

2009-08-19 Thread Or Gerlitz
Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > The patches are against 2.6.31-rc4. I'd like them to go into linux-next > and down the road 2.6.32 if possible. Please comment. Hi Michael, Just wanted to make sure with you how this can be tested, is 2.6.31-rc4 plus these two patches enough to form the kernel part?

Re: [PATCH 0/3] qemu-kvm: vhost net support

2009-08-19 Thread Or Gerlitz
Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > Well, I definitely see some gain in latency. > Here's a simple test over a 1G ethernet link (host to guest): > Native: > 126976 126976 11 10.0010393.23 > vhost virtio: > 126976 126976 11 10.008169.58 > Userspace virtio: > 126976 126

Re: failure to build kvm release against 2.6.30

2009-07-19 Thread Or Gerlitz
> include/linux/mmzone.h:18:26: error: linux/bounds.h: No such file or directory > include/linux/mmzone.h:256:5: warning: "MAX_NR_ZONES" is not defined okay, my problem was that for some reason the auto generated linux/bounds.h file got cleaned from this system, now I can build that. Or. -- To un

failure to build kvm release against 2.6.30

2009-07-16 Thread Or Gerlitz
With kvm-88, a configure line such as (see output below) # ./configure --prefix=/path/to/intall/dir --target-list=x86_64-softmmu --kerneldir=/lib/modules/2.6.30/build yields the below build failure of the kvm kernel sources (I think that in earlier version there was a configure directive to disa