On 28/02/2024 8:27 am, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 27.02.2024 15:57, Andrew Cooper wrote:
>> Looking at the XenServer patchqueue, a couple to consider but nothing
>> jumps out as critically urgent.
>>
>> b6cf604207fd and 098d868e52ac as oxenstored perf fixes, although there's
>> one incremental (non-functional) fix I'm still waiting on an ack on. 
>> The backport to 4.18 is trivial.  The backport to 4.17 is miserable but
>> I've already done it.
> I wouldn't normally consider such for backport, but I'm not opposed if the
> oxenstore maintainers agree (now Cc-ed) and if I can leave putting in these
> two backports to you.

I'm not overly fussed.  On our side, it came in as a bug, but we also
have scalability limits specified where upstream Xen doesn't.

>> cf7fe8b72dea which is the CPUID rescan on microcode load.
> This is already there on the 4.18 branch, and it isn't applicable to the
> upstream 4.17 one (I assume you did backport the commit referenced in the
> Fixes: tag to your XenServer tree).

Ah yes.  The rescan raw patch has been in our patchqueue since 2018, and
I keep on forgetting how poor we are at getting that work complete.

Sorry for the noise.

~Andrew

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