Re: Xen 4.7 Test Day Instructions for RC2+ : Call to action for people who added new features / functionality to Xen 4.7

From: Lars Kurth <lars.kurth.xen@gmail.com>
To: Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>,
	Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>,
	Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>,
	He Chen <he.chen@linux.intel.com>,
	Doug Goldstein <cardoe@cardoe.com>, Chunyan Liu <cyliu@suse.com>,
	George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>,
	ross.lagerwall@citrix.com, Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>,
	mengxu@cis.upenn.edu, Chong Li <lichong659@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Xen 4.7 Test Day Instructions for RC2+ : Call to action for people who added new features / functionality to Xen 4.7
Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 16:28:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6DB04875-03D4-4542-B06C-2B0412D085BE@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BB3C8E2C-00C7-4257-ADBF-7D88FB41CD77@gmail.com>

Hi all,

I added the following sections based on git logs to man pages. Authors are on the CC list and should review and modify (or suggest edits by replying to this thread). I added/updated/added TODO's to:

I do have some questions, to ...
- Konrad/Ross: is there any documentation for xSplice which I have missed?
- Julien: Any ARM specific stuff you want people to test?
- Doug: are there any docs / tests for KCONFIG you want to push
- George: are there any manual tests for credit 2 hard affinity, for hotplug disk backends (drbd, iscsi, &c) and soft reset for HVM guests that should be added?

For the following sections there are some TODO's - please verify and modify and once OK, remove the TODO from the wiki pages.

VCPU-PIN (Juergen Gross)
- http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_4.7_RC_test_instructions#-f_option_for_xl_vcpu-pin

RTDS (Meng Xu, Chong Li)
- Meng, you mention improvements to the RTDS scheduler in another thread
- Are any specific test instructions needed in http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_4.7_RC_test_instructions
- http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_4.7_RC_test_instructions#RTDS_scheduler_improvements

COLO (Wen Congyang)
- http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/COLO_-_Coarse_Grain_Lock_Stepping
- http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_4.7_RC_test_instructions#COLO_-_Coarse_Grain_Lock_Stepping

USB (Chunyan Liu)
- http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_4.7_RC_test_instructions#USB_Support_for_xl
- http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_USB_Passthrough#PVUSB
- http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_USB_Passthrough#PVUSB_in_xl.2Flibxl

CDP (He Chen)
- http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_4.7_RC_test_instructions#Intel_Code_and_Data_Prioritization_.28CDP.29
- http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Intel_Platform_QoS_Technologies#Code_and_Data_Prioritization_.28CDP.29

Are there any other big items that are missing?

Regards
Lars

> On 5 May 2016, at 18:08, Lars Kurth <lars.kurth.xen@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I updated http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_Project_Test_Days and created http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_4.7_RC_test_instructions (note that we only have one page for all RC's now to avoid unnecessary copy and pasting).
> 
> For those who want new features to be tested, please expect to 
> a) Explain what to test (a very short description of the feature)
> b) Add some instructions on how to test (e.g. some command line instructions)
> 
> You can add a new headline (an example is marked with TODO) to either
> - http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_4.7_RC_test_instructions#Specific_ARM_Test_Instructions
> - http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_4.7_RC_test_instructions#Specific_x86_Test_Instructions
> - OR http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_4.7_RC_test_instructions#RC_specific_things_to_test (under a specific RC heading)
> 
> I will start promoting Test Days from early next week (on the blog, but also on the mailing lists). The more specific test instructions for Xen 4.7 related features, the better the coverage will be and the more likely people are to actually test.
> 
> Best Regards
> Lars

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