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bridge mode without network rework

DISCUSSION Zhang Haoyu 2 participants 2 messages Dec 24, 2014 KVM

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Quoted 12 lines · Paolo Bonzini
Quoted 1 line · On 19/12/2014 11:59, [email protected] wrote:

Since we decided not to go with KVM due to stability issue, we could let this go, thanks.

That's a pity. That said, your decision to not go with KVM due to stability is a bit strange:

1) unless you are using open source Xen, you are presumably going for a commercial solution that would cost you money anyway. Have you thought of asking for commercial support, either from Canonical (since you were using Ubuntu) or from anyone else?

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2) I saw now that you were using 3.13. I'm sorry for not having noticed that early, but have you tried upgrading the kernel? There is a known bug with Ivy Bridge EP and hv_vapic, but it's fixed on newer kernels (3.16). If you are not going to pay anyone for support, you probably

Hi, Paolo,
do you mean the commit fc57ac2 KVM: lapic: sync highest ISR to hardware apic on EOI ? I want to backport it to our product.

Thanks,
Zhang Haoyu

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should have thought about this yourself. If you hadn't thought about it, and you are going for an open source solution (which I hope), you probably should re-evaluate the plan of not paying anyone for support, either a company or someone with enough expertise.

Paolo

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Quoted 3 lines · Zhang Haoyu

Hi, Paolo,
do you mean the commit fc57ac2 KVM: lapic: sync highest ISR to hardware apic on EOI ? I want to backport it to our product.

Yes.

Paolo