From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: Vasiliy G Tolstov <v.tolstov@selfip.ru>
Cc: Don Brearley <donbrearley@hibbing.edu>, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: linux kernel 2.6.37
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 10:30:56 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110121153056.GA4698@dumpdata.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1295563321.22720.17.camel@mobile>
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 01:42:01AM +0300, Vasiliy G Tolstov wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 22:19 +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:11:09PM +0300, Vasiliy G Tolstov wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 14:09 -0600, Don Brearley wrote:
> > > >
> > > > FWIW, I was able to successfully boot PV domU guests while using Xen
> > > > 4.0.2-rc2-pre and
> > > > 2.6.37-rc7 from the git repo
> > > >
> > > > The problem I encountered was the lack of netback support. Couldn't
> > > > get any
> > > > network interfaces to come up. Whoops :) Otherwise it seemed fine,
> > > > but I didnt
> > > > run the guests very long.
> > > >
> > > > Hope that helps!
> > > > - Don
> > >
> > > Sorry, i mean domU, not dom0 =). I can try to move from 2.6.32 from
> > > jeremy to vanilla 2.6.37...
> > >
> >
> > Yeah, please try it and let us know if you find any issues.
> >
> > One day in the (hopefully near) future we'll set up automatic
> > upstream (Linus) kernel testing.. so we can catch possible regressions/bugs early
> > during the -rc phase and "final" releases are known to be good..
> >
> > -- Pasi
> >
>
>
> Interesting thing appeared:
> domU pv running with memory=512 and maxmem=4096
>
> after kernel is booted i see in /var/log/messages
> Memory: 377324k/4202496k available (4125k kernel code, 448k absent,
> 3824724k reserved, 1636k data, 640k init)
>
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 372 264 107 0 29
> 119
> -/+ buffers/cache: 116 256
> Swap: 4996 0 4996
>
> xm list says that xen allocated 512M of ram to domain
> Why xen steals 140M of memory?
Do you see any messages during bootup about memory being returned? Look for
xen_release_chunk .. and pages freed ?
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-21 15:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-20 20:09 linux kernel 2.6.37 Don Brearley
2011-01-20 20:11 ` Vasiliy G Tolstov
2011-01-20 20:19 ` Pasi Kärkkäinen
2011-01-20 20:28 ` Vasiliy G Tolstov
2011-01-20 22:42 ` Vasiliy G Tolstov
2011-01-21 15:30 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [this message]
2011-01-21 16:16 ` Vasiliy G Tolstov
2011-01-24 20:19 ` Vasiliy G Tolstov
2011-01-25 14:45 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-01-25 16:33 ` Vasiliy G Tolstov
2011-01-25 18:43 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-01-26 17:58 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-01-25 17:35 ` Vasiliy G Tolstov
2011-01-25 21:03 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-01-26 6:40 ` Vasiliy G Tolstov
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2011-01-20 20:01 Vasiliy G Tolstov
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