On Monday 06 April 2009 17:21:11 Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> On Fri, 03 Apr 2009 11:19:24 -0700
> > Yes. But it still depends on the guest. A very helpful guest could
> > deliberately preswap pages so that it can mark them as volatile, whereas
> > a less helpful one may keep them persistent an
On Friday 03 April 2009 06:06:31 Rik van Riel wrote:
> Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> > The benefits are the same but the algorithmic complexity is reduced.
> > The patch to the memory management has complexity in itself but from a
> > 1000 feet standpoint guest page hinting is simpler, no?
> Page hi
On Friday 03 April 2009 02:52:49 Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Apr 2009 22:32:00 +1100
> Nick Piggin wrote:
>
> > On Monday 30 March 2009 01:23:36 Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> > > On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 17:05:28 +1030
> > >
> > > Rusty Russell wrot
On Monday 30 March 2009 01:23:36 Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 17:05:28 +1030
>
> Rusty Russell wrote:
> > On Saturday 28 March 2009 01:39:05 Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> > > Greetings,
> > > the circus is back in town -- another version of the guest page hinting
> > > patches. Th
On Saturday 26 July 2008 03:55, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> I'm thinking about ways to improve the Xen balloon driver. This is the
> driver which allows the guest domain to expand or contract by either
> asking for more memory from the hypervisor, or giving unneeded memory
> back. From the kerne
On Tuesday 08 July 2008 10:29, Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 July 2008 05:07:49 Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> > At the most recent Xen Summit, Thomas Friebel presented a paper
> > ("Preventing Guests from Spinning Around",
> > http://xen.org/files/xensummitboston08/LHP.pdf) investigating the
On Tuesday 10 June 2008 17:57, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Nick Piggin wrote:
> > On Tuesday 10 June 2008 17:35, Isaku Yamahata wrote:
> >> This patch is ported one from 534:77db69c38249 of linux-2.6.18-xen.hg.
> >> Use wmb instead of rmb to enforce ordering between
>
On Tuesday 10 June 2008 17:35, Isaku Yamahata wrote:
> This patch is ported one from 534:77db69c38249 of linux-2.6.18-xen.hg.
> Use wmb instead of rmb to enforce ordering between
> evtchn_upcall_pending and evtchn_pending_sel stores
> in xen_evtchn_do_upcall().
There are a whole load of places in
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 01:51:17PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Also, for non-wb memory. I don't think the Intel document referenced
> > says anything about this, but the AMD document says that loads can pass
> > lo
