[Xen-devel] xen/arm: drop hip04 support

2016-02-02 Thread Zoltan Kiss
This platform is no longer actively used, but it makes GICv2 development harder. Signed-off-by: Zoltan Kiss --- diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 7c1bf82..12f147c 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -177,11 +177,6 @@ S: Supported F: xen/arch/x86/debug.c F: tools

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen/arm: gic-hip04: Resync the driver with the GICv2

2015-06-01 Thread Zoltan Kiss
On 01/06/15 13:11, Julien Grall wrote: On 01/06/15 12:25, Zoltan Kiss wrote: Hi, Yes, we managed to test it, and it works. Then only thing I've found is this bit: +/* Only 1020 interrupts are supported */ +gicv2_info.nr_lines = min(1020U, nr_lines); This interrupt controller

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen/arm: gic-hip04: Resync the driver with the GICv2

2015-06-01 Thread Zoltan Kiss
de in the early versions, and I looked everywhere in the archives to figure out why it was dropped before upstreaming, but I couldn't find it. Other than this bit: Reviewed-by: Zoltan Kiss Tested-by: Shameerali Kolothum Thodi And sorry for the loong delay! Regards, Zoli On 01/06/15 12:

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen/arm: gic-hip04: Resync the driver with the GICv2

2015-05-18 Thread Zoltan Kiss
On 15/05/15 22:08, Julien Grall wrote: Hi Zoltan, On 07/05/2015 13:37, Zoltan Kiss wrote: On 07/05/15 10:32, Ian Campbell wrote: On Thu, 2015-05-07 at 09:52 +0100, Zoltan Kiss wrote: Looks good at first glance, let me try it on a board. On 06/05/15 19:52, Julien Grall wrote: [...] I&#

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Remove Frediano Ziglio from "HISILICON HIP04 Support"

2015-05-07 Thread Zoltan Kiss
On 07/05/15 15:14, Jan Beulich wrote: On 07.05.15 at 12:11, wrote: On 07/05/15 10:52, Julien Grall wrote: On 07/05/2015 09:21, Zoltan Kiss wrote: On 06/05/15 19:56, Julien Grall wrote: His email address is bouncing from more than a month. Signed-off-by: Julien Grall Cc: Ian Jackson Cc

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen/arm: gic-hip04: Resync the driver with the GICv2

2015-05-07 Thread Zoltan Kiss
Hi, On 07/05/15 10:32, Ian Campbell wrote: On Thu, 2015-05-07 at 09:52 +0100, Zoltan Kiss wrote: Looks good at first glance, let me try it on a board. On 06/05/15 19:52, Julien Grall wrote: [...] I'm concerned to see a newly driver (pushed last march) already orphan. Does Huawei still

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Remove Frediano Ziglio from "HISILICON HIP04 Support"

2015-05-07 Thread Zoltan Kiss
On 07/05/15 10:52, Julien Grall wrote: Hi Zoltan, On 07/05/2015 09:21, Zoltan Kiss wrote: On 06/05/15 19:56, Julien Grall wrote: His email address is bouncing from more than a month. Signed-off-by: Julien Grall Cc: Ian Jackson Cc: Keir Fraser Cc: Jan Beulich Cc: Zoltan Kiss

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen/arm: gic-hip04: Resync the driver with the GICv2

2015-05-07 Thread Zoltan Kiss
: Ian Campbell Cc: Frediano Ziglio Cc: Zoltan Kiss commit e2d486b385ce58b6db7561417de28ba837dcd4ac Author: Julien Grall Date: Wed Apr 1 17:21:34 2015 +0100 xen/arm: Divide GIC initialization in 2 parts Currently the function to translat

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Remove Frediano Ziglio from "HISILICON HIP04 Support"

2015-05-07 Thread Zoltan Kiss
I'm still working there, but as a Linaro assignee for LNG. Julian's last mail fell through unfortunately, sorry about that. Zoli On 07/05/15 09:25, Olaf Hering wrote: On Thu, May 07, Zoltan Kiss wrote: Yes, he left indeed. M: Zoltan Kiss What about you?

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Remove Frediano Ziglio from "HISILICON HIP04 Support"

2015-05-07 Thread Zoltan Kiss
On 06/05/15 19:56, Julien Grall wrote: His email address is bouncing from more than a month. Signed-off-by: Julien Grall Cc: Ian Jackson Cc: Keir Fraser Cc: Jan Beulich Cc: Zoltan Kiss --- I've heard he left Huawei. Yes, he left indeed. --- MAINTAINERS | 1 - 1 file chang

Re: [Xen-devel] Network blocked after sending several packets larger than 128 bytes when using Driver Domain

2015-03-19 Thread Zoltan Kiss
On 19/03/15 03:40, openlui wrote: Hi, all: I am trying to use a HVM with PCI pass-through NIC as network driver domain. However, when I send packets whose size are larger than 128 bytes from DomU using pkt-gen tools, after several seconds, the network between driver domain and destination h

Re: [Xen-devel] Allow controlling NAPI weight of virtual network interfaces (vif) with sysfs

2015-03-16 Thread Zoltan Kiss
Hi, In that case I recommend you to take a look at the debugfs patch already in there, based on that it should be pretty straightforward to do it what you want: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f51de243 It already prints out "queue->napi.weight" Zol

Re: [Xen-devel] Allow controlling NAPI weight of virtual network interfaces (vif) with sysfs

2015-03-13 Thread Zoltan Kiss
Hi, I reckon you want to do this for the same reason you started this thread a month ago: http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2015-02/msg00228.html Have you considered the suggestions given there? (using the existing traffic shaping facilities of the kernel). As Wei said, you would

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCHv1 net] xen-netback: notify immediately after pushing Tx response.

2015-03-11 Thread Zoltan Kiss
thread is descheduled or there is an interrupt or softirq). Signed-off-by: David Vrabel Reviewed-by: Zoltan Kiss --- drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c | 23 --- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c b/drivers

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCHv1 2/2] xen-netback: unref frags when handling a from-guest skb with a frag list

2015-03-03 Thread Zoltan Kiss
;s less confusing. Signed-off-by: David Vrabel Reviewed-by: Zoltan Kiss --- drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c | 43 +++-- 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c b/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c

Re: [Xen-devel] Request for help, implementing a new network scheduler

2015-02-04 Thread Zoltan Kiss
d(), but I strongly recommend to look for other ways I mentioned in my previous letter. Thanks Ronald On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 12:54 PM, Zoltan Kiss mailto:zoltan.k...@linaro.org>> wrote: On 03/02/15 00:42, Ronald PIna wrote: Hi I am working for the msc thesi

Re: [Xen-devel] Request for help, implementing a new network scheduler

2015-02-03 Thread Zoltan Kiss
On 03/02/15 00:42, Ronald PIna wrote: Hi I am working for the msc thesis to improve the performance on network for guest domains that uses real-time services like voip or video streaming servers , i have an idea to implement a network scheduler on network backend, the schedulers may be weighte

Re: [Xen-devel] Question about significant network performance difference after pin RX netback to vcpu0

2015-01-08 Thread Zoltan Kiss
On 08/01/2015 02:33, trump_zhang wrote: Hi, I am trying to test the single-queue networking performance for netback/netfront in upstream, my testing environment is as follows: 1. Using pkt-gen to send a single UDP flow from one host to a vm which runs on another XEN host. Two hosts ar

Re: [Xen-devel] Significant network performance difference when different NIC MQ handles the packet

2015-01-08 Thread Zoltan Kiss
On 04/01/15 06:15, Zhangleiqiang (Trump) wrote: On 31/12/14 09:06, Zhangleiqiang (Trump) wrote: Hi, all: I have used pkt-gen to send udp packet (1400 bytes) from one Dom0 A to another Dom0 B each of which is connected by 10GE network. On the receive side (B),different "ksoftirqd/x" p

Re: [Xen-devel] Significant network performance difference when different NIC MQ handles the packet

2015-01-02 Thread Zoltan Kiss
On 31/12/14 09:06, Zhangleiqiang (Trump) wrote: Hi, all: I have used pkt-gen to send udp packet (1400 bytes) from one Dom0 A to another Dom0 B each of which is connected by 10GE network. On the receive side (B),different "ksoftirqd/x" processes will handle the packet during each test

Re: [Xen-devel] netback: Carrier off / Carrier on again, rinse, repeat

2014-12-11 Thread Zoltan Kiss
Hi, This has been fixed by "f48da8: xen-netback: fix unlimited guest Rx internal queue and carrier flapping", it's already in 3.18, I don't know if it is going to be backported to 3.17 Zoli On 11/12/14 14:42, Christopher S. Aker wrote: Xen: 4.4.2-pre (28573:f6f6236af933) + xsa111, xsa112, x

Re: [Xen-devel] Poor network performance between DomU with multiqueue support

2014-12-05 Thread Zoltan Kiss
On 04/12/14 14:31, Zhangleiqiang (Trump) wrote: -Original Message- From: Zoltan Kiss [mailto:zoltan.k...@linaro.org] Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2014 9:35 PM To: Zhangleiqiang (Trump); Wei Liu; xen-devel@lists.xen.org Cc: Xiaoding (B); Zhuangyuxin; zhangleiqiang; Luohao (brian

Re: [Xen-devel] Poor network performance between DomU with multiqueue support

2014-12-05 Thread Zoltan Kiss
On 05/12/14 12:42, Wei Liu wrote: On Fri, Dec 05, 2014 at 01:17:16AM +, Zhangleiqiang (Trump) wrote: [...] I think that's expected, because guest RX data path still uses grant_copy while guest TX uses grant_map to do zero-copy transmit. As far as I know, there are three main grant-relate

Re: [Xen-devel] PV DomU running linux 3.17.3 causing xen-netback fatal error in Dom0

2014-12-05 Thread Zoltan Kiss
Hi, Maybe I'm misreading it, but it seems to me that netfront doesn't slice up the linear buffer at all, just blindly sends it. In xennet_start_xmit: unsigned int offset = offset_in_page(data); unsigned int len = skb_headlen(skb); ... tx->offset = offset; tx->size = len; Although in the slot

Re: [Xen-devel] Poor network performance between DomU with multiqueue support

2014-12-04 Thread Zoltan Kiss
On 04/12/14 12:09, Zhangleiqiang (Trump) wrote: I think that's expected, because guest RX data path still uses grant_copy while >guest TX uses grant_map to do zero-copy transmit. As I understand, the RX process is as follows: 1. Phy NIC receive packet 2. XEN Hypervisor trigger interrupt to Dom

Re: [Xen-devel] Poor network performance between DomU with multiqueue support

2014-12-02 Thread Zoltan Kiss
On 02/12/14 11:53, Zhangleiqiang (Trump) wrote: -Original Message- From: xen-devel-boun...@lists.xen.org [mailto:xen-devel-boun...@lists.xen.org] On Behalf Of David Vrabel Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2014 6:57 PM To: zhangleiqiang; xen-devel@lists.xen.org Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Poor n

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen-netfront: Fix handling packets on compound pages with skb_linearize

2014-12-01 Thread Zoltan Kiss
On 01/12/14 13:36, David Vrabel wrote: On 01/12/14 08:55, Stefan Bader wrote: On 11.08.2014 19:32, Zoltan Kiss wrote: There is a long known problem with the netfront/netback interface: if the guest tries to send a packet which constitues more than MAX_SKB_FRAGS + 1 ring slots, it gets

Re: [Xen-devel] Question about network performance difference between dom0 and host

2014-11-28 Thread Zoltan Kiss
Hi, I would check whether GRO is enabled under Dom0 or not (ethtool -k ethX). Comparing top during test (especially that which context use how many percentage), and the number of interrupts per second (grep eth /proc/interrupts) would be interesting too. Regards, Zoltan On 28/11/14 02:29,

Re: [Xen-devel] BUG in xennet_make_frags with paged skb data

2014-11-10 Thread Zoltan Kiss
On 10/11/14 14:41, David Vrabel wrote: On 10/11/14 14:35, Seth Forshee wrote: On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 10:44:15AM +, David Vrabel wrote: On 06/11/14 21:49, Seth Forshee wrote: We've had several reports of hitting the following BUG_ON in xennet_make_frags with 3.2 and 3.13 kernels (I'm cur