Re: [SeaBIOS] Alt SeaBIOS SSDT cpu hotplug

[Kevin O'Connor]

On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 12:41:18AM +0800, Liu, Jinsong wrote:
  Kevin O'Connor wrote:
  On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 09:19:13PM +0800, Liu,
Jinsong wrote:
  Avi Kivity wrote:
  Very nice.  I thought about doing this but
abandoned it as
 unmaintainable.  Using external functions and the ID variable,
 however, reduces the mess to tolerable proportions, and gains us a
 lot of flexibility.  We can now have any combinations of sockets and
 installed cpus.
 
 Agree, only 1 concern
 will it bring debugable/ scalable issue by hardcode aml code?
 
 I've updated the patch (see below).  This version documents how one
 can build a new version of the Processor() ssdt snippet.
 
 I've tested this under linux - there were a few bugs in the previous
 patch.  I also had to replace the dynamically created CPUS array with
 a dynamically created NTFY method - which is a bit more complicated.
 
 Yeah, thanks Kevin.
 After you done patch and draft test, our QA may do nightly test.
Hi Jinsong,

Have you had any feedback from tests?

Thanks,
-Kevin

Alt SeaBIOS SSDT cpu hotplug

[Liu, Jinsong]

Kevin O'Connor wrote:
  On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 12:41:18AM +0800, Liu, Jinsong
wrote:
  Kevin O'Connor wrote:
  On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 09:19:13PM +0800, Liu,
Jinsong wrote:
  Avi Kivity wrote:
> Very nice.  I thought about doing this but abandoned it as
> unmaintainable.  Using external functions and the ID variable,
> however, reduces the mess to tolerable proportions, and gains us a
> lot of flexibility.  We can now have any combinations of sockets
> and installed cpus.
 
 Agree, only 1 concern
 will it bring debugable/ scalable issue by hardcode aml code?
 
 I've updated the patch (see below).  This version documents how one
 can build a new version of the Processor() ssdt snippet.
 
 I've tested this under linux - there were a few bugs in the previous
 patch.  I also had to replace the dynamically created CPUS array
 with a dynamically created NTFY method - which is a bit more
 complicated.
 
 Yeah, thanks Kevin.
 After you done patch and draft test, our QA may do nightly test.
 
 Hi Jinsong,
 
 Have you had any feedback from tests?
 
 Thanks,
 -Kevin
Oh, I misunderstand.
I originally thought our QA will test after your patch send to upstream, so we wait for it
:)

I will talk with our QA this week to arrange test for it.

Thanks,
Jinsong

Alt SeaBIOS SSDT cpu hotplug

[Liu, Jinsong]

Liu, Jinsong wrote:
  Kevin O'Connor wrote:
  On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 12:41:18AM +0800, Liu,
Jinsong wrote:
  Kevin O'Connor wrote:
  On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 09:19:13PM +0800, Liu,
Jinsong wrote:
> Avi Kivity wrote:
>> Very nice.  I thought about doing this but abandoned it as
>> unmaintainable.  Using external functions and the ID variable,
>> however, reduces the mess to tolerable proportions, and gains us
>> a lot of flexibility.  We can now have any combinations of
>> sockets and installed cpus.
> 
> Agree, only 1 concern
> will it bring debugable/ scalable issue by hardcode aml code?
 
 I've updated the patch (see below).  This version documents how one
 can build a new version of the Processor() ssdt snippet.
 
 I've tested this under linux - there were a few bugs in the
 previous patch.  I also had to replace the dynamically created
 CPUS array with a dynamically created NTFY method - which is a bit
 more complicated.
 
 Yeah, thanks Kevin.
 After you done patch and draft test, our QA may do nightly test.
 
 Hi Jinsong,
 
 Have you had any feedback from tests?
 
 Thanks,
 -Kevin
 
 Oh, I misunderstand.
 I originally thought our QA will test after your patch send to
 upstream, so we wait for it :) 
 
 I will talk with our QA this week to arrange test for it.
 
 Thanks,
 Jinsong
Kevin,

We have done test for your patch, result are:
1. For linux 2.6.32 hvm guest, it works OK, for both vcpu add and vcpu remove, and re-add,
re-remove, ...
2. For Window 2008 DataCenter hvm guest, it BSOD every time, QA feedback below:
==================
[QA] We test it as following:
1 copy bios.bin to /usr/local/share/qemu/
 (BTW, we also test as your method , copy bios.bin to qemu-kvm/pc-bios, then at qemu-kvm
./configure make && make install)
2 create qemu img for Windows 2008 Datacenter
 qemu-img  create -b /share/xvs/img/Windows/ia32e_win2k8_datacenter.img  -f qow2 test.img
3 create guest
 qemu-system-x86_64  -hda test.img  -m 1024 -smp 2,maxvcpus=16
4 blueScreen
==================

BTW, attached is the latest patch I received from you.
Do you have updated version?

Thanks,
Jinsong