Re: [Publicity] Blog Czar update, week of June 10

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Changes made, links added.

I will speak with Andrew tomorrow for all other pending things from
XenServer.


Wei.

On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 05:53:15PM +0200, Dario Faggioli wrote:
> On mar, 2013-06-25 at 10:48 +0100, Wei Liu wrote:
> > You (and anybody who is interested) can certainly have a look at it,
> > just skip the multi-queue paragraph.
> > 
> Looked at it, and I think it's nice. Here's some comments.
> 
> ---
> First 2 sentences: "As many of you might have (inevitably) noticed, Xen
> frontend / backend network drivers in Linux suffered from regression
> several months back. Fortunately thatâs now fixed and the back-porting
> process to stable kernels is on-going"
> 
> would it be possible to have some context? Even just a couple of
> hyperlink to e-mail discussions and commit-ids would do.
> ---
> "Split event channels: [...] This work is now upstreamed."
> 
> Again, commit-id, hyperlinked to some gitweb would be nice.
> ---
> "Affinity of FE / BE on the same NUMA node: [...] Then toolstack,
> scheduler can co-schedule the desired frontend and backend on the same
> NUMA node."
> 
> I'd put it like this: "Then the Xen scheduler, with some help from the
> toolstack, can make sure that the vCPU in Dom0 where the backend runs is
> kept on the same NUMA node of the vCPUs of the DomU (where the frontend
> runs), for improved locality and, hence, performance."
> ---
> You finally might want to super-briefly mention that this has been
> discussed in Dublin and, again, link to the related xen-devel thread.
> ---
> 
> That being said, I'd aim at publishing this on Friday. If you could get
> all the approvals for the missing part and/or for adding in the graphs
> (or whatever else you have pending) by then, well, that would be
> wonderful. :-)
> 
> Thanks and Regards,
> Dario
> 
> -- 
> <<This happens because I choose it to happen!>> (Raistlin Majere)
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> Dario Faggioli, Ph.D, http://about.me/dario.faggioli
> Senior Software Engineer, Citrix Systems R&D Ltd., Cambridge (UK)
> 



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