Re: [Xen-users] Release 0.8.9 of GPL PV drivers for Windows

[Scott McKenzie <scott.xensource@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Scott McKenzie wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:49:59 +1000, "James Harper"
> <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>   
> > Here's the latest version. Took me ages to get to the bottom of what
> > turned out to be a pretty simple problem - windows can give us more
> > pages in a packet than Linux can handle but Linux (netback) doesn't
> > complain about it, it just creates corrupt packets :(
> >
> > Download from http://www.meadowcourt.org/WindowsXenPV-0.8.9.zip
> >
> > I'll probably do another release very shortly, mainly to reduce memory
> > consumption on the tx side so that more interfaces can run at once.
> >
> > >From the testing I've done, on a UP windows DomU, with iperf options '-l
> > 1M -w 1M', with the iperf server running in Dom0, I get TX throughput of
> > about 1.5Gbits/second and RX throughput of about 0.5Gbits/second. When I
> > tried it under SMP it worked, but the performance was horrible. Probably
> > best if you don't run it under SMP for the moment :)
> >
> > I did have a test performance of 2.5Gbits/second, but now that I have to
> > copy the windows buffers into my own buffers to reduce page usage, I
> > seem to only be able to get about 1.5Gbits/second out of it... This kind
> > of makes sense given that DomU to Dom0 network performance is going to
> > be CPU and Memory bandwidth bound.
> >
> > James
> >     
> Hi James
>
> I've tested this release on my system (fresh install) and I'm still getting
> the duplicate disk problem when I boot with the /gplpv option.
>
> There has been some talk lately that this may be a fault of the Red Hat
> kernel.  FWIW I'm running CentOS 5.1 64bit, kernel is
> 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5xen.
>
>
> Cheers
> Scott
>
>   
I've just installed openSUSE on my system to test the drivers with their 
kernel and Xen version.  I took a copy of my Windows HVM, booted it, 
installed 0.8.9, rebooted without /gplpv, rebooted with /gplpv and I had 
two disk devices appearing in device manager.  So it doesn't look like 
it's the dom0 kernel that's causing this problem.


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