Re: [win-pv-devel] [EXTERNAL] v9.0.0 released

[Steffan Cline <steffan@xxxxxxxxx>]

Some of these configs are new to me. I’ll have to look up those items you 
mentioned and report back. I’m sure they’re currently set to the defaults. 


Thanks,
Steffan Cline
steffan@xxxxxxxxx
602-793-0014

> On Mar 13, 2020, at 1:30 AM, Paul Durrant <xadimgnik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> 
>> Paul,
>> 
>> I upgraded Xen to 4.12. One of the lines from your config is
>> 
>> viridian = [ 'base', 'freq', 'time_ref_count', 'reference_tsc', 
>> 'hcall_remote_tlb_flush',
>> 'apic_assist', 'crash_ctl', 'stimer', 'hcall_ipi' ]
>> 
>> but with my distro/Xen the most it would utilize is
>> 
>> viridian = [ 'base', 'freq', 'time_ref_count', 'reference_tsc', 
>> 'hcall_remote_tlb_flush',
>> 'apic_assist', 'crash_ctl' ]
> 
> Yes, the last 2 only came in with 4.13.
> 
>> 
>> On this VM which is Win Server 2019, I have all of the latest 9.0.0 drivers 
>> installed. I tried them in
>> Win 2012R2 but had to remove the USB drivers since it wouldn't even detect 
>> mouse clicks.
>> 
> 
> That's probably down to your QEMU. Older QEMUs didn't send events to multiple 
> devices so they could get lost.
> 
>> Anyway, after the updates you can see the write speed dropped a bit but the 
>> 4K read went up a bit. Do
>> these numbers still look normal?
>> 
>> I've attached the speeds for xen 4.8 and 4.12
>> 
> 
> The 4k speed has improved certainly. Apologies if you already said (I lost 
> the original email) but have you bumped up the default grant table size? 
> Also, what ring size is running between frontend and backend (4 page?).
> 
>  Paul
> 
> 
> 
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