1. 12 6月, 2009 1 次提交
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      lguest: improve interrupt handling, speed up stream networking · a32a8813
      Rusty Russell 提交于
      lguest never checked for pending interrupts when enabling interrupts, and
      things still worked.  However, it makes a significant difference to TCP
      performance, so it's time we fixed it by introducing a pending_irq flag
      and checking it on irq_restore and irq_enable.
      
      These two routines are now too big to patch into the 8/10 bytes
      patch space, so we drop that code.
      
      Note: The high latency on interrupt delivery had a very curious
      effect: once everything else was optimized, networking without GSO was
      faster than networking with GSO, since more interrupts were sent and
      hence a greater chance of one getting through to the Guest!
      
      Note2: (Almost) Closing the same loophole for iret doesn't have any
      measurable effect, so I'm leaving that patch for the moment.
      
      Before:
      	1GB tcpblast Guest->Host:		30.7 seconds
      	1GB tcpblast Guest->Host (no GSO):	76.0 seconds
      
      After:
      	1GB tcpblast Guest->Host:		6.8 seconds
      	1GB tcpblast Guest->Host (no GSO):	27.8 seconds
      Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      a32a8813
  2. 30 3月, 2009 1 次提交
  3. 30 12月, 2008 1 次提交
  4. 28 3月, 2008 1 次提交
  5. 25 10月, 2007 1 次提交
  6. 23 10月, 2007 3 次提交
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      Revert lguest magic and use hook in head.S · 814a0e5c
      Rusty Russell 提交于
      Version 2.07 of the boot protocol uses 0x23C for the hardware_subarch
      field, that for lguest is "1".  This allows us to use the standard
      boot entry point rather than the "GenuineLguest" string hack.
      
      The standard entry point also clears the BSS and copies the boot parameters
      and commandline for us, saving more code.
      Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      814a0e5c
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      Boot with virtual == physical to get closer to native Linux. · 47436aa4
      Rusty Russell 提交于
      1) This allows us to get alot closer to booting bzImages.
      
      2) It means we don't have to know page_offset.
      
      3) The Guest needs to modify the boot pagetables to create the
         PAGE_OFFSET mapping before jumping to C code.
      
      4) guest_pa() walks the page tables rather than using page_offset.
      
      5) We don't use page_offset to figure out whether to emulate: it was
         always kinda quesationable, and won't work for instructions done
         before remapping (bzImage unpacking in particular).
      
      6) We still want the kernel address for tlb flushing: have the initial
         hypercall give us that, too.
      Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      47436aa4
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      Move lguest guest support to arch/x86. · 34b8867a
      Rusty Russell 提交于
      Lguest has two sides: host support (to launch guests) and guest
      support (replacement boot path and paravirt_ops).  This moves the
      guest side to arch/x86/lguest where it's closer to related code.
      Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      34b8867a
  7. 25 9月, 2007 1 次提交
  8. 27 7月, 2007 2 次提交
  9. 21 7月, 2007 1 次提交
  10. 20 7月, 2007 2 次提交
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      lguest: the host code · d7e28ffe
      Rusty Russell 提交于
      This is the code for the "lg.ko" module, which allows lguest guests to
      be launched.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: update for futex-new-private-futexes]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
      [jmorris@namei.org: lguest: use hrtimers]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: x86_64 build fix]
      Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      d7e28ffe
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      lguest: the guest code · 07ad157f
      Rusty Russell 提交于
      lguest is a simple hypervisor for Linux on Linux.  Unlike kvm it doesn't need
      VT/SVM hardware.  Unlike Xen it's simply "modprobe and go".  Unlike both, it's
      5000 lines and self-contained.
      
      Performance is ok, but not great (-30% on kernel compile).  But given its
      hackability, I expect this to improve, along with the paravirt_ops code which
      it supplies a complete example for.  There's also a 64-bit version being
      worked on and other craziness.
      
      But most of all, lguest is awesome fun!  Too much of the kernel is a big ball
      of hair.  lguest is simple enough to dive into and hack, plus has some warts
      which scream "fork me!".
      
      This patch:
      
      This is the code and headers required to make an i386 kernel an lguest guest.
      Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      07ad157f