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Re: [Xen-devel] Performance numbers on PV-on-HVM

On Fri, 1 Oct 2010, Pasi K??rkk??inen wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 03:06:12PM +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > On Thu, 30 Sep 2010, Christian Zoffoli wrote:
> > > Il 29/09/2010 11:10, Stefano Stabellini ha scritto:
> > > [cut]
> > > > Yes, you are right.
> > > > A little while back I backported the whole series to 2.6.32 and the
> > > > result was included the Jeremy's pvops main branch, but I haven't kept
> > > > it completely up to date.
> > > > The new changes that are only in the 2.6.35-rc5-pvhvm-v7 branch regards
> > > > PV spinlocks, the balloon driver and the PV console.
> > > 
> > > that's a good news but in my experience the pv_ops kernel is not as
> > > stable as the suse xenified kernel
> > > ...imho the best would be to have clean patches for a 3.6.32.x vanilla
> > > kernel ...so we can do packages close to the official ones ...with only
> > > this great addition.
> > > 
> >  
> > I have just done a backport to 2.6.32 of the whole series, branch name
> > 2.6.32-pvhvm; I'll try to keep it up to date.
> > It should be easy to rebase the series on the latest 2.6.32 stable
> > kernel or to apply CVE fixes on top of this branch.
> > 
> 
> Hopefully Jeremy merges 2.6.32-pvhvm to xen/stable-2.6.32.x branch..
 
The problem is that Jeremy's stable branch is sufficiently different
from stable 2.6.32 that the port in non-trivial.
It would probably easier for him to cherry-pick the last 6 patches in
the series.

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