Re: HEADS UP: Merging projects/bhyve_svm to HEAD

I would be using such a patch as soon as it was available.  On a friend's
advice, I upgraded a ZFS server here at home with an AMD 9590 and 32Gig of
RAM.  I'd dearly like to use it to track down the netgraph bug (see my
other recent posts), but it doesn't currently qualify.

On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 8:20 PM, Neel Natu <neelnatu_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox <zbeeble_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I tried to integrate this patch into 10.1_RC3 and I failed.  Is there a
> > timeframe to MFC this to 10.1 or 10-STABLE?
> >
>
> It will be MFCed to 10-STABLE but I don't have a specific time frame in
> mind.
>
> I'll guess that it'll be towards the end of November but can be
> accelerated if someone has a need for this in 10-STABLE sooner.
>
> best
> Neel
>
> > On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Benjamin Perrault <
> ben.perrault_at_gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> After a few days of extensive testing and abuse, i’ve run into no new
> >> issues or unknowns what so ever. Everything that worked before still
> works
> >> now ( and a few bugs from fixed from HEAD ).
> >>
> >> Thus, I have gone ahead and pushed r273182 w/ Neel’s patch out to about
> 80
> >> of the assorted AMD boxes in the production and dev pods that I care
> for. If
> >> end users see something, I’ll let you know, but I have a feeling they
> won’t.
> >>
> >> Again - Excellent work.
> >>
> >> cheers,
> >> -bp
> >>
> >> > On Oct 19, 2014, at 5:03 AM, Willem Jan Withagen <wjw_at_digiware.nl>
> >> > wrote:
> >> >
> >> > On 16-10-2014 5:00, Anish Gupta wrote:
> >> >> Hi all,
> >> >>
> >> >> The projects/bhyve_svm branch is ready to be merged to HEAD.
> >> >>
> >> >> This branch contains patches to bhyve to enable it to work on AMD
> >> >> processors with SVM/AMD-V hardware extensions[1]. Pretty much any AMD
> >> >> processor since 2010 will have the features required by bhyve.
> >> >>
> >> >> bhyve on AMD supports (almost) all the features available with Intel
> >> >> [2]. All guest OSes supported on Intel are supported on AMD. All the
> >> >> bhyve-related utilities function similarly on both Intel and AMD
> >> >> platforms [3].
> >> >>
> >> >> The patch against HEAD revision 273066 is available for review and
> >> >> testing:
> >> >> https://people.freebsd.org/~neel/bhyve/bhyve_svm.diff [Neel’s web
> >> >> directory]
> >> >>
> >> >> [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_virtualization
> >> >> [2]: bhyve doesn't support PCI passthru on AMD at this time
> >> >> [3]: bhyvectl has grown some processor-specific options
> >> >
> >> > Fetched the patch and compiled.
> >> > Now running: HEAD r273066M and I was able to throw at it all the tests
> >> > and images that in the past works. And perhaps even better.
> >> >
> >> > Great work.
> >> > --WjW
> >> >
> >> >
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