Re: [PATCH] README, xen/Makefile: Update to Xen 4.5.0

[Sander Eikelenboom <linux@eikelenboom.it>]

Tuesday, January 6, 2015, 6:17:12 PM, you wrote:

> Expand the README file to give a brief view of what went in
> Xen 4.5.0. Also change the Makefile to not use the '-rc'
> postfix.

> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
> ---
>  README       | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
>  xen/Makefile |  2 +-
>  2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

> diff --git a/README b/README
> index 412607a..26432b4 100644
> --- a/README
> +++ b/README
> @@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
>  #################################
> -__  __            _  _    ____                        _        _     _      
> -\ \/ /___ _ __   | || |  | ___|       _   _ _ __  ___| |_ __ _| |__ | | ___ 
> - \  // _ \ '_ \  | || |_ |___ \ _____| | | | '_ \/ __| __/ _` | '_ \| |/ _ \
> - /  \  __/ | | | |__   _| ___) |_____| |_| | | | \__ \ || (_| | |_) | |  __/
> -/_/\_\___|_| |_|    |_|(_)____/       \__,_|_| |_|___/\__\__,_|_.__/|_|\___|
> +
> +\ \/ /___ _ __   | || |  | ___| / _ \ 
> + \  // _ \ '_ \  | || |_ |___ \| | | |
> + /  \  __/ | | | |__   _| ___) | |_| |
> +/_/\_\___|_| |_|    |_|(_)____(_)___/ 
>  
>  #################################

Hi Konrad,

Doesn't the above hunk chop of the top row of the figlet ?

--
Sander


 
> @@ -19,14 +19,28 @@ is freely-distributable Open Source software, released under the GNU
>  GPL. Since its initial public release, Xen has grown a large
>  development community, spearheaded by xen.org (http://www.xen.org).
>  
> -The 4.3 release offers a number of improvements, including NUMA
> -scheduling affinity, openvswitch integration, and defaulting to
> -qemu-xen rather than qemu-traditional for non-stubdom guests.
> -(qemu-xen is kept very close to the upstream project.)  We also have a
> -number of updates to vTPM, and improvements to XSM and Flask to allow
> -greater disaggregation.  Additionally, 4.3 contains a basic version of
> -Xen for the new ARM server architecture, both 32- and 64-bit.  And as
> -always, there are a number of performance, stability, and security
> +The 4.5 release offers a number of improvements: including shedding
> +of the Python toolstack (xend), improvements for large scale machines
> +during bootup and for PCI passthrough, PVH initial domain support for Intel,
> +multiple IO-REQ servers (many QEMUs for a guest), soft affinity for vCPUs
> +(aka NUMA affinity), API expansion for guest introspection; Real Time
> +Scheduler. We also have number of updates for CPU specific changes, such
> +as Broadwell Supervisor Mode Access Prevention, Haswell Bridge Cache QoS
> +Monitoring aka Intel Resource Director Technology, and further extensions
> +to vAPIC (SandyBridge feature), fixes in AMD microcode loading, and
> +Data Breaking Extensions and masking MSR support on AMD.
> +
> +Additionally, 4.5 has a huge update to the ARM code allowing us to support
> +more than 1TB guests, support for more than 8 CPUs, Power State Coordination
> +Interface (0.2), UEFI booting, IOMMU support (SMMUv1), Super Page (2MB) support,
> +passthrough of MMIO regions to guests, and lower interrupt latency.
> +
> +The toolstack has expanded to support VM Generation ID (an Windows 2012 Server
> +requirement), Remus initial support (for high availability), libxenlight
> +JSON support and persistent configuration support, systemd support, and
> +lastly support in QEMU for expanding the PCI hole.
> +
> +And as always, there are a number of performance, stability, and security
>  improvements under-the hood.
>  
>  This file contains some quick-start instructions to install Xen on
> diff --git a/xen/Makefile b/xen/Makefile
> index 72c1313..5d70741 100644
> --- a/xen/Makefile
> +++ b/xen/Makefile
> @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
>  # All other places this is stored (eg. compile.h) should be autogenerated.
>  export XEN_VERSION       = 4
>  export XEN_SUBVERSION    = 5
> -export XEN_EXTRAVERSION ?= .0-rc$(XEN_VENDORVERSION)
> +export XEN_EXTRAVERSION ?= .0$(XEN_VENDORVERSION)
>  export XEN_FULLVERSION   = $(XEN_VERSION).$(XEN_SUBVERSION)$(XEN_EXTRAVERSION)
>  -include xen-version
>