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

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

[Lars Kurth]

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

[Lars Kurth]

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

[George Dunlap]

On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 4:28 PM, Lars Kurth <lars.kurth.xen@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

Hard affinity tests shouldn't be too difficult to add in.  There are
certainly tests for drbd and iscsi, but I'm not personally that
familiar with them, it would basically be, "If you use drbd or iscsi
backends, try HVM guests". :-)

Soft Reset was added in by Vitaly, I believe; I listed it because I
saw it in the git history.

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

[Julien Grall]

(CC Shannon, Stefano and Steve)

Hi Lars,

On 09/05/16 16:28, Lars Kurth wrote:
> 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?

General testing of Xen on the boards we are supporting.

We may also want some testing on ACPI, which will be in tech preview for 
Xen 4.7. However this is requiring platform with ACPI 6.0 (or later). If 
I remember correctly, none of the ARM64 platform we support fulfill this 
requirement. Steve, do you have any platform in mind?

Shannon, which platform have you used for the ACPI development? Was it 
the Foundation Model?

If so we would need to write down (or update) a wiki page with the 
instructions to boot Xen on the model.

Cheers,

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

[Lars Kurth]

Reduced CC list

> On 9 May 2016, at 17:03, George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 4:28 PM, Lars Kurth <lars.kurth.xen@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> Hard affinity tests shouldn't be too difficult to add in.  

That would be great

> There are
> certainly tests for drbd and iscsi, but I'm not personally that
> familiar with them, it would basically be, "If you use drbd or iscsi
> backends, try HVM guests". :-)

I can add that

> Soft Reset was added in by Vitaly, I believe; I listed it because I
> saw it in the git history.

Added Vitaly


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

[Lars Kurth]

> On 9 May 2016, at 17:17, Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com> wrote:
> 
> (CC Shannon, Stefano and Steve)
> 
> Hi Lars,
> 
> On 09/05/16 16:28, Lars Kurth wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> General testing of Xen on the boards we are supporting.

That is already in the boilerplate, but I can make it more prominent

> We may also want some testing on ACPI, which will be in tech preview for Xen 4.7. However this is requiring platform with ACPI 6.0 (or later). If I remember correctly, none of the ARM64 platform we support fulfill this requirement. Steve, do you have any platform in mind?
> 
> Shannon, which platform have you used for the ACPI development? Was it the Foundation Model?
> 
> If so we would need to write down (or update) a wiki page with the instructions to boot Xen on the model.

That makes sense

There was wallclock also, if I recall

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

[Julien Grall]

On 09/05/16 17:56, Lars Kurth wrote:
>
>> On 9 May 2016, at 17:17, Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com> wrote:
>>
>> (CC Shannon, Stefano and Steve)
>>
>> Hi Lars,
>>
>> On 09/05/16 16:28, Lars Kurth wrote:
>>> 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?
>>
>> General testing of Xen on the boards we are supporting.
>
> That is already in the boilerplate, but I can make it more prominent
>
>> We may also want some testing on ACPI, which will be in tech preview for Xen 4.7. However this is requiring platform with ACPI 6.0 (or later). If I remember correctly, none of the ARM64 platform we support fulfill this requirement. Steve, do you have any platform in mind?
>>
>> Shannon, which platform have you used for the ACPI development? Was it the Foundation Model?
>>
>> If so we would need to write down (or update) a wiki page with the instructions to boot Xen on the model.
>
> That makes sense
>
> There was wallclock also, if I recall

Good point. Stefano, how can it be tested? Is checking the date in the 
guest enough?

Cheers,

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

[Meng Xu]

On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 11:28 AM, Lars Kurth <lars.kurth.xen@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> RTDS (Meng Xu, Tianyang, 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

I verified the text in the wiki, added one comment "which will not
invoke the scheduler unnecessarily" for the event-driven model.

I removed the TODO in the RTDS section in the wiki.
Please let me know if I need to do something else.

Thank you very much!

Best,

Meng

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

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk]

On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 04:28:52PM +0100, Lars Kurth wrote:
> 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?

I've updated http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/XSplice

to have better layout and data. I will have a sub-section on how to test it.

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

[Lars Kurth]

> On 9 May 2016, at 18:37, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 04:28:52PM +0100, Lars Kurth wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> I've updated http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/XSplice
> 
> to have better layout and data. I will have a sub-section on how to test it.

Cool: ping me and I will link to it from the test day page
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Re: Xen 4.7 Test Day Instructions for RC2+ : Call to action for people who added new features / functionality to Xen 4.7

[Shannon Zhao]

On 2016/5/10 0:17, Julien Grall wrote:
> (CC Shannon, Stefano and Steve)
> 
> Hi Lars,
> 
> On 09/05/16 16:28, Lars Kurth wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> General testing of Xen on the boards we are supporting.
> 
> We may also want some testing on ACPI, which will be in tech preview for
> Xen 4.7. However this is requiring platform with ACPI 6.0 (or later). If
> I remember correctly, none of the ARM64 platform we support fulfill this
> requirement. Steve, do you have any platform in mind?
> 
> Shannon, which platform have you used for the ACPI development? Was it
> the Foundation Model?
> 
The AEMv8A model.

> If so we would need to write down (or update) a wiki page with the
> instructions to boot Xen on the model.
> 
There is a wiki page[1] written by Parth. It needs to update it.

[1] https://wiki.linaro.org/LEG/Engineering/Xen_boot_on_FVP_ACPI_UEFI

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

[Dario Faggioli]

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[removing Vitaly, adding Juergen]

On Mon, 2016-05-09 at 17:55 +0100, Lars Kurth wrote:
> 
> > On 9 May 2016, at 17:03, George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>
> > wrote:
> > On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 4:28 PM, Lars Kurth
> > <lars.kurth.xen@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > - 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?
> > Hard affinity tests shouldn't be too difficult to add in.  
>
> That would be great
> 
George, if you are not into this already, I can do it.

One thing (for Lars). There's a section about "-f option for xl vcpu-
pin". I don't see what's its purpose and what and how one should test
this.

Perhaps Juergen has better ideas, but I think it should just be
removed.

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

[Chun Yan Liu]

>>> On 5/9/2016 at 11:28 PM, in message
<6DB04875-03D4-4542-B06C-2B0412D085BE@gmail.com>, Lars Kurth
<lars.kurth.xen@gmail.com> wrote: 
> 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_i 
> mprovements 
>  
> 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_Gr 
> ain_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 

Updated!

- Chunyan

> CDP (He Chen) 
> -  
> http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_4.7_RC_test_instructions#Intel_Code_and_D 
> ata_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_Tes 
> t_Instructions 
> > -  
> http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_4.7_RC_test_instructions#Specific_x86_Tes 
> t_Instructions 
> > - OR  
> http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_4.7_RC_test_instructions#RC_specific_thin 
> gs_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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Re: Xen 4.7 Test Day Instructions for RC2+ : Call to action for people who added new features / functionality to Xen 4.7

[Doug Goldstein]

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On 5/9/16 10:28 AM, Lars Kurth wrote:
> 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

Not at this time. Unless someone has an idea for what they'd like to see
and I'll go off and do it.

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

[Juergen Gross]

On 10/05/16 04:18, Dario Faggioli wrote:
> [removing Vitaly, adding Juergen]
> 
> On Mon, 2016-05-09 at 17:55 +0100, Lars Kurth wrote:
>>  
>>> On 9 May 2016, at 17:03, George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 4:28 PM, Lars Kurth
>>> <lars.kurth.xen@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>  
>>>> - 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?
>>> Hard affinity tests shouldn't be too difficult to add in.  
>>
>> That would be great
>>
> George, if you are not into this already, I can do it.
> 
> One thing (for Lars). There's a section about "-f option for xl vcpu-
> pin". I don't see what's its purpose and what and how one should test
> this.
> 
> Perhaps Juergen has better ideas, but I think it should just be
> removed.

+1

The only test I could imagine would be to test whether the "-f" option
is accepted.


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

[Dario Faggioli]

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[trimming the Cc list]

On Mon, 2016-05-09 at 21:59 -0500, Doug Goldstein wrote:
> On 5/9/16 10:28 AM, Lars Kurth wrote:
> > 
> > - Doug: are there any docs / tests for KCONFIG you want to push
> Not at this time. Unless someone has an idea for what they'd like to 
>
This is not specifically related to test-day/test-instructions, but as
far as I can tell:
 1) there's no wiki page saying that we have Kconfig and how to use it,
 2) we haven't blogged about it.

I'd say we should do both, but I guess 2 depends on how much we really
want this possibility of changing the default configuration to be
advertised. As I think the answer is "not much", we may better don't
blog.

But at least 1, I think it should be there.

As a matter of fact, I still haven't given explicitly using Kconfig on
Xen a try yet (despite wanting to), so I'm not sure about the
content... But just something simple stating that it's there, what it
covers (Xen only vs. Xen+tools, etc), how to achieve what's been the
default so far, how to achieve something slightly different...
something like this.

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

[George Dunlap]

On 10/05/16 03:18, Dario Faggioli wrote:
> [removing Vitaly, adding Juergen]
> 
> On Mon, 2016-05-09 at 17:55 +0100, Lars Kurth wrote:
>>  
>>> On 9 May 2016, at 17:03, George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 4:28 PM, Lars Kurth
>>> <lars.kurth.xen@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>  
>>>> - 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?
>>> Hard affinity tests shouldn't be too difficult to add in.  
>>
>> That would be great
>>
> George, if you are not into this already, I can do it.

That would be great, thanks. :-)

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

[Stefano Stabellini]

On Mon, 9 May 2016, Julien Grall wrote:
> On 09/05/16 17:56, Lars Kurth wrote:
> > 
> > > On 9 May 2016, at 17:17, Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > (CC Shannon, Stefano and Steve)
> > > 
> > > Hi Lars,
> > > 
> > > On 09/05/16 16:28, Lars Kurth wrote:
> > > > 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?
> > > 
> > > General testing of Xen on the boards we are supporting.
> > 
> > That is already in the boilerplate, but I can make it more prominent
> > 
> > > We may also want some testing on ACPI, which will be in tech preview for
> > > Xen 4.7. However this is requiring platform with ACPI 6.0 (or later). If I
> > > remember correctly, none of the ARM64 platform we support fulfill this
> > > requirement. Steve, do you have any platform in mind?
> > > 
> > > Shannon, which platform have you used for the ACPI development? Was it the
> > > Foundation Model?
> > > 
> > > If so we would need to write down (or update) a wiki page with the
> > > instructions to boot Xen on the model.
> > 
> > That makes sense
> > 
> > There was wallclock also, if I recall
> 
> Good point. Stefano, how can it be tested? Is checking the date in the guest
> enough?

Yes, it is enough, provided that the guest doesn't run ntpdate (or
doesn't have access to network).

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

[Lars Kurth]

Hi all,

I cleaned the test page page up as much as I could and have time for and incorporated your input: see http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_4.7_RC_test_instructions 

Obviously there are still gaps, which could be filled. I did focus on top-level features and features which have a command-line impact. 

This means, that I didn't cover features such as VT-d posted interrupts, VMX TSC Scaling, huge PV-domains, ... If you do want to get them included and they are testable (even if as simple as "boot Xen <or whatever operation is needed> on HW with <xyz> feature (or even better HW of <xyz model>) in <foo-bar> mode"), feel free to add to the page.

Best Regards
Lars 

> On 9 May 2016, at 16:28, Lars Kurth <lars.kurth.xen@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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Re: Xen 4.7 Test Day Instructions for RC2+ : Call to action for people who added new features / functionality to Xen 4.7

[Dario Faggioli]

On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 10:46 AM, George Dunlap
<george.dunlap@citrix.com> wrote:
> On 10/05/16 03:18, Dario Faggioli wrote:
>> On Mon, 2016-05-09 at 17:55 +0100, Lars Kurth wrote:
>>>> Hard affinity tests shouldn't be too difficult to add in.
>>>
>>> That would be great
>>>
>> George, if you are not into this already, I can do it.
>
> That would be great, thanks. :-)
>
I've added a section about the new features in Credit2:
http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_4.7_RC_test_instructions#Credit2_runqueue_arrangement_and_hard-affinity_support

And I've also added more info and more examples about RTDS:
http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_4.7_RC_test_instructions#RTDS_scheduler_improvements

Regards,
Dario
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