On Tue, 6 Oct 2015, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> Do KVM guests also need such extensive set of modifications in order to
> run using 64KB pages? I know it's not fair to compare KVM and Xen in
> this regard, because the interfaces are very different, but that's what
> developers are going to look at.
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On Tue, 2015-10-06 at 11:28 +0200, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> El 22/09/15 a les 12.59, Ian Campbell ha escrit:
> > On Mon, 2015-09-14 at 17:23 +0200, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> > > I'm not saying that we shouldn't take those patches, I'm just saying
> > > that IMHO this is a workaround, and I would lik
El 22/09/15 a les 12.59, Ian Campbell ha escrit:
> On Mon, 2015-09-14 at 17:23 +0200, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
>> I'm not saying that we shouldn't take those patches, I'm just saying
>> that IMHO this is a workaround, and I would like to see a plan and
>> somebody committed to have it fixed in a prop
On 29/09/15 17:33, Julien Grall wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> On 29/09/15 17:27, David Vrabel wrote:
>> On 07/09/15 16:33, Julien Grall wrote:
>>>
>>> A branch based on the latest xentip/for-linus-4.3 can be found here:
>>>
>>> git://xenbits.xen.org/people/julieng/linux-arm.git branch xen-64k-v4
>>
>> Th
Hi David,
On 29/09/15 17:27, David Vrabel wrote:
> On 07/09/15 16:33, Julien Grall wrote:
>>
>> A branch based on the latest xentip/for-linus-4.3 can be found here:
>>
>> git://xenbits.xen.org/people/julieng/linux-arm.git branch xen-64k-v4
>
> This has too many conflicts with the
> git://git.kern
On 07/09/15 16:33, Julien Grall wrote:
>
> A branch based on the latest xentip/for-linus-4.3 can be found here:
>
> git://xenbits.xen.org/people/julieng/linux-arm.git branch xen-64k-v4
This has too many conflicts with the
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip.git for-linus-4.4
br
On Mon, 2015-09-14 at 17:23 +0200, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> I'm not saying that we shouldn't take those patches, I'm just saying
> that IMHO this is a workaround, and I would like to see a plan and
> somebody committed to have it fixed in a proper way, by introducing a
> 64KB PV block protocol.
In
Hi Roger,
On 14/09/15 13:08, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> Well, absolute numbers together with the standard deviation are IMHO the
> best way to provide those figures (ie: see ministat(1) output for
> example), but percentages should also be fine.
>
> I'm just interested in knowing the performance di
On Tuesday 15 September 2015 14:14:09 David Vrabel wrote:
> On 14/09/15 12:32, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Monday 14 September 2015 13:04:59 Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> >>> TBH, I'm expecting a small impact to the performance. It would be hard
> >>> to get the exactly the same performance as today if
On 14/09/15 12:32, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Monday 14 September 2015 13:04:59 Roger Pau Monné wrote:
>>> TBH, I'm expecting a small impact to the performance. It would be hard
>>> to get the exactly the same performance as today if we keep the helpers
>>> to avoid the backend dealing himself with
El 14/09/15 a les 16.54, Stefano Stabellini ha escrit:
> On Mon, 14 Sep 2015, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
>> IMHO this splitting is just a workaround for the fact that we don't have
>> a 64KB PV block protocol, and this is the real problem that should be
>> solved.
>
> 64K is a pure one guest kernel co
On Mon, 14 Sep 2015, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> IMHO this splitting is just a workaround for the fact that we don't have
> a 64KB PV block protocol, and this is the real problem that should be
> solved.
64K is a pure one guest kernel configuration option, not a platform wide
option. The hypervisor i
On 14/09/15 15:29, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
>> To give you an example, Centos 7, which will support Xen and only 64KB
>> page granularity, will be supported for years. Dropping any splitting in
>> a short future (3-5 years) will just break those guests to boot on Xen.
>
> Can't the patches to suppor
Hello,
El 14/09/15 a les 14.47, Julien Grall ha escrit:
> On 14/09/15 13:08, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
>>> I'd like to see a basic support of 64KB page granularity upstream before
>>> starting to think about performance improvement. And there is still a
>>> lot to do.
>>
>> I wasn't actually thinking
On 14/09/15 13:08, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
>> I'd like to see a basic support of 64KB page granularity upstream before
>> starting to think about performance improvement. And there is still a
>> lot to do.
>
> I wasn't actually thinking of this as a performance improvement, but
> rather as a way of
El 14/09/15 a les 13.21, Julien Grall ha escrit:
> On 14/09/15 12:04, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> El 14/09/15 a les 12.40, Julien Grall ha escrit:
>>> Hi Roger,
>>>
>>> On 14/09/15 09:56, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
El 07/09/15 a les 17.33, Julien Grall ha escrit:
> Hi all,
>
>>>
On Monday 14 September 2015 13:04:59 Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> > TBH, I'm expecting a small impact to the performance. It would be hard
> > to get the exactly the same performance as today if we keep the helpers
> > to avoid the backend dealing himself with the splitting and page
> > granularity.
>
On 14/09/15 12:04, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> Hello,
>
> El 14/09/15 a les 12.40, Julien Grall ha escrit:
>> Hi Roger,
>>
>> On 14/09/15 09:56, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
>>> El 07/09/15 a les 17.33, Julien Grall ha escrit:
Hi all,
ARM64 Linux is supporting both 4KB and 64KB page granular
Hello,
El 14/09/15 a les 12.40, Julien Grall ha escrit:
> Hi Roger,
>
> On 14/09/15 09:56, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
>> El 07/09/15 a les 17.33, Julien Grall ha escrit:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> ARM64 Linux is supporting both 4KB and 64KB page granularity. Although, Xen
>>> hypercall interface and PV prot
Hi Roger,
On 14/09/15 09:56, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> El 07/09/15 a les 17.33, Julien Grall ha escrit:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> ARM64 Linux is supporting both 4KB and 64KB page granularity. Although, Xen
>> hypercall interface and PV protocol are always based on 4KB page granularity.
>>
>> Any attempt to
El 07/09/15 a les 17.33, Julien Grall ha escrit:
> Hi all,
>
> ARM64 Linux is supporting both 4KB and 64KB page granularity. Although, Xen
> hypercall interface and PV protocol are always based on 4KB page granularity.
>
> Any attempt to boot a Linux guest with 64KB pages enabled will result to a
Hi,
A quick update on the TODO.
On 07/09/15 16:33, Julien Grall wrote:
> ARM64 Linux is supporting both 4KB and 64KB page granularity. Although, Xen
> hypercall interface and PV protocol are always based on 4KB page granularity.
>
> Any attempt to boot a Linux guest with 64KB pages enabled will
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