Re: Xen 4.6 Development Update (three months reminder)

[Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>]

On 14/04/15 11:27, wei.liu2@citrix.com wrote:
> === Hypervisor X86 === 
>
> *  VT-d Posted-interrupt (PI) (none)
>   -  Wu, Feng

V1 posted

> *  Intel PML (Page Modification Logging) for Xen (none)
>    design doc posted
>   -  Kai Huang

V1 posted (good)

>
> *  PVH - AMD hardware support. (fair)
>    RFC posted
>   -  Elena Ufimtseva

I am not aware of any patches along these lines?

> == Xen toolstack == 
>
> *  New Migration (v2). (good)
>    v9 (libxc)
>    git://xenbits.xen.org/people/andrewcoop/xen.git
>    Seems that it might need to slip or we run v1 alongside v2.
>   -  Andrew Cooper & David Vrabel

Hopefully no need to slip, but there are very good reasons to run v1
alongside v2.

> *  PVH - Migration of guests from a PVH dom0  (none)
>    Depends on migration2 code
>   -  Roger Pau Monné

v1 posted.

> == Deferred == 
>
> *  ucode=scan also scan compressed initramfs (none)
>   -  Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
>
> *  adjust log buffer based on memmap size (none)
>   -  Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
>
> *  Further tmem cleanups/fixes (fair)
>   -  Bob Liu
>
> *  1TB slow destruction (ok)
>   -  Bob Liu
>
> *  cpuid leveling (none)
>    http://xenbits.xen.org/people/andrewcoop/feature-levelling/feature-levelling-D.pdf
>   -  Andrew Cooper

Now starting active work on this, but I can't say yet whether it is even
plausible to be done in the 4.6 timeframe.

~Andrew