Xen 4.2 TODO List Update

* Xen 4.2 TODO List Update
@ 2012-01-31 11:51 Ian Campbell
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From: Ian Campbell @ 2012-01-31 11:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
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This weeks update. Please send me corrections (especially
"done"). Lots of DONE this week, nice to see. We've had patches posted
for most of the blockers too AFAICT.

hypervisor, blockers:

      * round-up of the closing of the security hole in MSI-X
        passthrough (uniformly - i.e. even for Dom0 - disallowing write
        access to MSI-X table pages). (Jan Beulich -- more fixes
        required than first thought, patches posted)
      * domctls / sysctls set up to modify scheduler parameters, like
        the credit1 timeslice and schedule rate. (George Dunlap)
      * get the interface changes for sharing/paging/mem-events done and
        dusted so that 4.2 is a stable API that we hold to. (Tim Deegan,
        Andres Lagar-Cavilla et al)
              * mem event ring management DONE
              * sharing patches posted

tools, blockers:

      * libxl stable API -- we would like 4.2 to define a stable API
        which downstream's can start to rely on not changing. Aspects of
        this are:
              * event handling (Ian J, DONE)
              * drop libxl_device_model_info (move bits to build_info or
                elsewhere as appropriate). (Ian Campbell, patches
                posted, repost pending).
              * add libxl_defbool and generally try and arrange that
                memset(foo,0,...) requests the defaults (Ian Campbell,
                repost pending)
              * topologyinfo datastructure should be a list of tuples,
                not a tuple of lists. (Ian Campbell, patches posted,
                repost pending)
      * xl to use json for machine readable output instead of sexp by
        default (Ian Campbell, patch posted, repost pending)
      * xl support for vcpu pinning (Dario Faggioli, DONE)
      * xl feature parity with xend wrt driver domain support (George
        Dunlap)
      * Integrate qemu+seabios upstream into the build (Stefano, DONE).
        No change in default qemu for 4.2.
      * More formally deprecate xm/xend. Manpage patches already in
        tree. Needs release noting and communication around -rc1 to
        remind people to test xl.

hypervisor, nice to have:

      * solid implementation of sharing/paging/mem-events (using work
        queues) (Tim Deegan, Olaf Herring et al)
      * A long standing issue is a fully synchronized p2m (locking
        lookups) (Andres Lagar-Cavilla)
      * NUMA improvement: domain affinity consistent with cpupool
        membership (Dario Faggioli, Jeurgen Gross -- DONE)

tools, nice to have:

      * Hotplug script stuff -- internal to libxl (I think, therefore I
        didn't put this under stable API above) but still good to have
        for 4.2? Roger Pau Monet was looking at this but its looking
        like a big can-o-worms. (discussion on-going. patches posted?)
      * Block script support -- follows on from hotplug script (Roger
        Pau Monet)
      * libyajl v2 support (patch posted by Roger Pau Monet, general
        agrement that this shouldn't be blocked by autoconf but that we
        probably will take both)
      * Configure/control paging via xl/libxl (Olaf Herring)
      * Upstream qemu feature patches:
              * Upstream qemu PCI passthrough support (Anthony Perard)
              * Upstream qemu save restore (Anthony Perard)
      * Nested-virtualisation (currently should be marked
        experimental,likely to release that way? Consider nested-svm
        separate to nested-vmx. Nested-svm is in better shape)
      * Initial xl support for Remus (memory checkpoint, blackholing)
        (Shriram, patches posted)

Tools, need to decide if pre- or post-4.2 feature:

      * Autoconf (Roger Pau Monet posted a patch, we'll probably take
        this for 4.2)

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