Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.6 Development Update (four months reminder)
On Wed, 2015-05-13 at 06:01 +0100, wei.l...@citrix.com wrote: All, _Please_ take note of this important note: (Note, please trim your quotes when replying, and also trim the CC list if necessary. You might also consider changing the subject line of your reply to Status of (Was: Xen 4.6 Development Update (X months reminder)) If you received this mail direct (vis BCC rather than the list) then you have replied to all and/or not trimmed your quotes (most of you did both). Please remember for next time. Ian. ___ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.6 Development Update (four months reminder)
* Clean-up of mem-event subsystem (good) v9 posted - Tamas K Lengyel Completed and merged. * Mem_access for ARM (good) v15 posted - Tamas K Lengyel Completed and merged. Cheers, Tamas ___ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.6 Development Update (four months reminder)
-Original Message- From: wei.l...@citrix.com [mailto:wei.l...@citrix.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2015 1:02 PM To: xen-de...@lists.xenproject.org; White, Edmund H; xumengpa...@gmail.com; dgol...@seas.upenn.edu; jtwea...@hawaii.edu; oleksandr.dmytrys...@globallogic.com; cheg...@amazon.de; tamas.leng...@zentific.com; daniel.ki...@oracle.com; george.dun...@eu.citrix.com; rcojoc...@bitdefender.com; yu.c.zh...@linux.intel.com; Wang, Wei W; Wu, Feng; dario.faggi...@citrix.com; ross.lagerw...@citrix.com; malcolm.cross...@citrix.com; Chen, Tiejun; boris.ostrov...@oracle.com; elena.ufimts...@oracle.com; vijaya.ku...@caviumnetworks.com; parth.di...@linaro.org; ian.campb...@citrix.com; andrii.tseglyts...@globallogic.com; suravee.suthikulpa...@amd.com; manishjaggi@gmail.com; vijay.kil...@gmail.com; andrew.coop...@citrix.com; vkuzn...@redhat.com; ian.jack...@eu.citrix.com; dsl...@verizon.com; cy...@suse.com; jgr...@suse.com; o...@aepfle.de; we...@cn.fujitsu.com; guijianf...@cn.fujitsu.com; yan...@cn.fujitsu.com; david.vra...@citrix.com; bob@oracle.com; roger@citrix.com; eshel...@pobox.com; wei.l...@citrix.com; Dong, Eddie; julien.gr...@citrix.com; anthony.per...@citrix.com; tal...@gmail.com; artem.myga...@globallogic.com; Hu, Robert; konrad.w...@oracle.com; julien.gr...@linaro.org; fabio.fant...@m2r.biz; chao.p.p...@linux.intel.com; kai.hu...@linux.intel.com; wei.l...@citrix.com; edgar.igles...@gmail.com; frediano.zig...@huawei.com; ard.biesheu...@linaro.org; Xu, Quan; oleksandr.tyshche...@globallogic.com Subject: Xen 4.6 Development Update (four months reminder) (Note, please trim your quotes when replying, and also trim the CC list if necessary. You might also consider changing the subject line of your reply to Status of (Was: Xen 4.6 Development Update (X months reminder)) Hi all We are now four months into 4.6 development window. This is an email to keep track of all the patch series I gathered. It is by no means complete and / or acurate. Feel free to reply this email with new projects or correct my misunderstanding. = Timeline = We are planning on a 9-month release cycle, but we could also release a bit earlier if everything goes well (no blocker, no critical bug). * Development start: 6 Jan 2015 === We are here === * Feature Freeze: 10 Jul 2015 * RCs: TBD * Release Date: 9 Oct 2015 (could release earlier) The RCs and release will of course depend on stability and bugs, and will therefore be fairly unpredictable. Bug-fixes, if Acked-by by maintainer, can go anytime before the First RC. Later on we will need to figure out the risk of regression/reward to eliminate the possiblity of a bug introducing another bug. = Prognosis = The states are: none - fair - ok - good - done none - nothing yet fair - still working on it, patches are prototypes or RFC ok - patches posted, acting on review good - some last minute pieces done - all done, might have bugs = Bug Fixes = Bug fixes can be checked in without a freeze exception throughout the freeze, unless the maintainer thinks they are particularly high risk. In later RC's, we may even begin rejecting bug fixes if the broken functionality is small and the risk to other functionality is high. Document changes can go in anytime if the maintainer is OK with it. These are guidelines and principles to give you an idea where we're coming from; if you think there's a good reason why making an exception for you will help us make Xen better than not doing so, feel free to make your case. == Hypervisor == * Alternate p2m: support multiple copies of host p2m (ok) - Ed White * Improve RTDS scheduler (none) Change RTDS from quantum driven to event driven - Dagaen Golomb, Meng Xu * Credit2: introduce per-vcpu hard and soft affinity (good) - Justin T. Weaver * sndif: add API for para-virtual sound (fair) v7 posted - Oleksandr Dmytryshyn * gnttab: improve scalability (good) v5 posted - Christoph Egger * Display IO topology when PXM data is available (good) v7 posted - Boris Ostrovsky * Clean-up of mem-event subsystem (good) v9 posted - Tamas K Lengyel * Xen multiboot2-EFI support (fair) See http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2013-05/msg02281.html RFC posted - Daniel Kiper * Credit2 production ready (none) cpu reservation - George Dunlap * VM event patches (none) Add support for XSETBV vm_events, Support hybernating guests Support for VMCALL-based vm_events - Razvan Cojocaru === Hypervisor X86 === * Intel GVT-g (none) requires refactoring ioreq-server, fixing 16-byte MMIO emulation and optional PV IOMMU support - Yu, Zhang * Porting Intel P-state driver to Xen (fair) - Wang, Wei * VT-d Posted-interrupt (PI) (good) v1 posted - Wu, Feng * HT enabled with credit has 7.9 per perf drop. (none)
Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.6 Development Update (four months reminder)
On 05/13/2015 01:01 PM, wei.l...@citrix.com wrote: (Note, please trim your quotes when replying, and also trim the CC list if necessary. You might also consider changing the subject line of your reply to Status of (Was: Xen 4.6 Development Update (X months reminder)) Hi all We are now four months into 4.6 development window. This is an email to keep track of all the patch series I gathered. It is by no means complete and / or acurate. Feel free to reply this email with new projects or correct my misunderstanding. = Timeline = We are planning on a 9-month release cycle, but we could also release a bit earlier if everything goes well (no blocker, no critical bug). * Development start: 6 Jan 2015 === We are here === * Feature Freeze: 10 Jul 2015 * RCs: TBD * Release Date: 9 Oct 2015 (could release earlier) The RCs and release will of course depend on stability and bugs, and will therefore be fairly unpredictable. Bug-fixes, if Acked-by by maintainer, can go anytime before the First RC. Later on we will need to figure out the risk of regression/reward to eliminate the possiblity of a bug introducing another bug. = Prognosis = [...] * COarse-grain LOck-stepping Virtual Machines in Xen (fair) RFC v5 posted - Wen Congyang - Gui Jianfeng - Yang Hongyang - Dong, Eddie * tmem migrationv2 patches. (none) - Bob Liu Andrew Cooper David Vrabel * Remus using migration-v2 (fair) RFC posted - depends on v6 of 'New Migration' - Yang Hongyang I think this should be ok or good, I've just sent out the v3 series of Remus migration-v2 support. * snapshot API extension (checkpointing disk) (fair) v10 - Chunyan Liu * PVH - Migration of PVH DomUs. (none) Depends on migration2 code v1 posted - Roger Pau Monn� * PVH - Migration of guests from a PVH dom0 (fair) Depends on migration2 code - Roger Pau Monn� == QEMU == * Linux-based QEMU upstream stub domain (fair) RFC posted - Eric Shelton * Using qemu-upstream in a stubdomain (none) Will use rump kernels. - Wei Liu * Intel IGD PCI GPU passthrough (ok) v5 posted - Chen, Tiejun == Linux == * Linux ARM - Device assigment (PCI) (none) Depends on Xen pieces which are on the Xen 4.6 list. - Manish Jaggi * VPMU - 'perf' support in Linux (ok) Depends on Xen patches Acked by David Vrabel - Boris Ostrovsky * vNUMA in Linux (ok) v6 posted - Wei Liu * COLO Agent in Linux (fair) - Gui Jianfeng - Yang Hongyang - Dong, Eddie * ARM64 - support 64K guest (none) - Julien Grall == OpenStack == * setup CI loop for OpenStack (fair) - Anthony Perard == FreeBSD == * PVH FreeBSD dom0 (ok) FreeBSD 11 goal. Toolstack side done in Xen 4.5 - Roger Pau Monn� == Other OSes (MiniOS, QNX) == * ARM - MiniOS (fair) v7 posted - Thomas Leonard * PV drivers for automotive kernels (fair) - Artem Mygaiev * mini-os: xenbus changes for rump kernels (ok) git://xenbits.xen.org/people/iwj/rumpuser-xen.git branch: base.dev-xen-xenbus.v1..dev-xen-xenbus.v1 v2 posted - Ian Jackson == OSSTEST == * OSSTest: studom test case (none) - Wei Liu * OSSTest: libvirt migration (fair) - Wei Liu * OSSTest: upgrade to Debian Jessie (none) - Wei Liu * OSSTest: performance test (fair) - Dario Faggioli * CPU pool test case (fair) - Dario Faggioli * Add a FreeBSD host (fair) - Roger Pau Monn� * Nested virt test case * v8 posted (fair) - Robert Hu == 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 * IO-NUMA - hwloc and xl (none) Andrew Cooper had an RFC patch for hwloc add restrictions as to which devices cannot safely/functionally be split apart. - Boris Ostrovsky * Convert tasklet to per-cpu tasklets (fair) RFC posted - Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk * Xen Boot Information (xbi) (ok) Dependency for GRUB2 + EFI work http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2014-10/msg02068.html v4, No go for full patchset. Only some of the patches. No ARM EFI hardware (yet) available to test them. - Daniel Kiper * Linux ARM - Device assigment usage in Linux code (arch/arm) non-PCI (none) Depends on Xen pieces which are on the Xen 4.6 list. - Julien Grall == Completed == * 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 * libxl: add qxl vga interface support for upstream qemu (fair) - Fabio Fantoni * ARM - passthrough of non-PCI (ok) -
Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.6 Development Update (four months reminder)
Hey Wei, On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 06:01:57AM +0100, wei.l...@citrix.com wrote: [...] * Xen multiboot2-EFI support (fair) I think that it could be ok. See http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2013-05/msg02281.html Change above link to http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2015-01/msg03962.html and http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2015-01/msg03982.html. RFC posted - Daniel Kiper Almost all comments for v1 are taken into account. Working on last patch in Xen series. GRUB2 patch series requires more discussion and probably some rework. I am going to post GRUB2 and Xen v2 patch series at the end of May or at the beginning of June. It depends on amount of our internal work too. Daniel ___ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
[Xen-devel] Xen 4.6 Development Update (four months reminder)
(Note, please trim your quotes when replying, and also trim the CC list if necessary. You might also consider changing the subject line of your reply to Status of (Was: Xen 4.6 Development Update (X months reminder)) Hi all We are now four months into 4.6 development window. This is an email to keep track of all the patch series I gathered. It is by no means complete and / or acurate. Feel free to reply this email with new projects or correct my misunderstanding. = Timeline = We are planning on a 9-month release cycle, but we could also release a bit earlier if everything goes well (no blocker, no critical bug). * Development start: 6 Jan 2015 === We are here === * Feature Freeze: 10 Jul 2015 * RCs: TBD * Release Date: 9 Oct 2015 (could release earlier) The RCs and release will of course depend on stability and bugs, and will therefore be fairly unpredictable. Bug-fixes, if Acked-by by maintainer, can go anytime before the First RC. Later on we will need to figure out the risk of regression/reward to eliminate the possiblity of a bug introducing another bug. = Prognosis = The states are: none - fair - ok - good - done none - nothing yet fair - still working on it, patches are prototypes or RFC ok - patches posted, acting on review good - some last minute pieces done - all done, might have bugs = Bug Fixes = Bug fixes can be checked in without a freeze exception throughout the freeze, unless the maintainer thinks they are particularly high risk. In later RC's, we may even begin rejecting bug fixes if the broken functionality is small and the risk to other functionality is high. Document changes can go in anytime if the maintainer is OK with it. These are guidelines and principles to give you an idea where we're coming from; if you think there's a good reason why making an exception for you will help us make Xen better than not doing so, feel free to make your case. == Hypervisor == * Alternate p2m: support multiple copies of host p2m (ok) - Ed White * Improve RTDS scheduler (none) Change RTDS from quantum driven to event driven - Dagaen Golomb, Meng Xu * Credit2: introduce per-vcpu hard and soft affinity (good) - Justin T. Weaver * sndif: add API for para-virtual sound (fair) v7 posted - Oleksandr Dmytryshyn * gnttab: improve scalability (good) v5 posted - Christoph Egger * Display IO topology when PXM data is available (good) v7 posted - Boris Ostrovsky * Clean-up of mem-event subsystem (good) v9 posted - Tamas K Lengyel * Xen multiboot2-EFI support (fair) See http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2013-05/msg02281.html RFC posted - Daniel Kiper * Credit2 production ready (none) cpu reservation - George Dunlap * VM event patches (none) Add support for XSETBV vm_events, Support hybernating guests Support for VMCALL-based vm_events - Razvan Cojocaru === Hypervisor X86 === * Intel GVT-g (none) requires refactoring ioreq-server, fixing 16-byte MMIO emulation and optional PV IOMMU support - Yu, Zhang * Porting Intel P-state driver to Xen (fair) - Wang, Wei * VT-d Posted-interrupt (PI) (good) v1 posted - Wu, Feng * HT enabled with credit has 7.9 per perf drop. (none) kernbench demonstrated it http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/xen/devel/339409 This has existed since credit1 introduction. - Dario Faggioli * Support controlling the max C-state sub-state (fair) v3 posted Hadn't see the patch reposted. - Ross Lagerwall * IOMMU ABI for guests to map their DMA regions (fair) - Malcolm Crossley * RMRR fix (fair) RFC posted - Tiejun Chen * VPMU - 'perf' support in Xen (good) v21 posted Need reviews/final ack. - Boris Ostrovsky * PVH domU (fair) RFC posted - Elena Ufimtseva === Hypervisor ARM === * Mem_access for ARM (good) v15 posted - Tamas K Lengyel * ITS support (fair ) - Vijaya Kumar K * Add ACPI support for arm64 on Xen (fair) RFC posted - Parth Dixit * ARM: reenable support 32-bit userspace running in 64-bit guest (good) v2 posted - Ian Campbell * ARM remote processor iommu module (GPUs + IPUs) (fair) v3 posted - Andrii Tseglytskyi * ARM VM save/restore/live migration (none) Need to rebased against migrationv2 - no code posted. - None * ARM GICv2m support (none) - Suravee Suthikulanit * ARM PCI passthrough (none) - Manish Jaggi - Vijay Kilari == Xen toolstack == * Migration v2 (libxl) (none) - Andrew Cooper * toolstack-based approach to pvhvm guest kexec (fair) also contains hypervisor side change - Vitaly Kuznetsov * Toolstack-based approach to pvhvm guest kexec (ok) v4 posted - Vitaly Kuznetsov * libxl: cancelling asynchronous operations (fair) RFC posted - Ian Jackson * VMware tools support (fair) - Don Slutz * PV USB support in libxl (fair) - Chunyan Liu * HVM USB support in libxl (fair) depend on PV USB support -
Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.6 Development Update (four months reminder)
On 5/13/2015 at 01:01 PM, in message e1ysont-0004pu...@ukmail1.uk.xensource.com, wei.l...@citrix.com wrote: (Note, please trim your quotes when replying, and also trim the CC list if necessary. You might also consider changing the subject line of your reply to Status of (Was: Xen 4.6 Development Update (X months reminder)) Hi all We are now four months into 4.6 development window. This is an email to keep track of all the patch series I gathered. It is by no means complete and / or acurate. Feel free to reply this email with new projects or correct my misunderstanding. = Timeline = We are planning on a 9-month release cycle, but we could also release a bit earlier if everything goes well (no blocker, no critical bug). * Development start: 6 Jan 2015 === We are here === * Feature Freeze: 10 Jul 2015 * RCs: TBD * Release Date: 9 Oct 2015 (could release earlier) The RCs and release will of course depend on stability and bugs, and will therefore be fairly unpredictable. Bug-fixes, if Acked-by by maintainer, can go anytime before the First RC. Later on we will need to figure out the risk of regression/reward to eliminate the possiblity of a bug introducing another bug. = Prognosis = The states are: none - fair - ok - good - done none - nothing yet fair - still working on it, patches are prototypes or RFC ok - patches posted, acting on review good - some last minute pieces done - all done, might have bugs = Bug Fixes = Bug fixes can be checked in without a freeze exception throughout the freeze, unless the maintainer thinks they are particularly high risk. In later RC's, we may even begin rejecting bug fixes if the broken functionality is small and the risk to other functionality is high. Document changes can go in anytime if the maintainer is OK with it. These are guidelines and principles to give you an idea where we're coming from; if you think there's a good reason why making an exception for you will help us make Xen better than not doing so, feel free to make your case. == Hypervisor == * Alternate p2m: support multiple copies of host p2m (ok) - Ed White * Improve RTDS scheduler (none) Change RTDS from quantum driven to event driven - Dagaen Golomb, Meng Xu * Credit2: introduce per-vcpu hard and soft affinity (good) - Justin T. Weaver * sndif: add API for para-virtual sound (fair) v7 posted - Oleksandr Dmytryshyn * gnttab: improve scalability (good) v5 posted - Christoph Egger * Display IO topology when PXM data is available (good) v7 posted - Boris Ostrovsky * Clean-up of mem-event subsystem (good) v9 posted - Tamas K Lengyel * Xen multiboot2-EFI support (fair) See http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2013-05/msg02281.html RFC posted - Daniel Kiper * Credit2 production ready (none) cpu reservation - George Dunlap * VM event patches (none) Add support for XSETBV vm_events, Support hybernating guests Support for VMCALL-based vm_events - Razvan Cojocaru === Hypervisor X86 === * Intel GVT-g (none) requires refactoring ioreq-server, fixing 16-byte MMIO emulation and optional PV IOMMU support - Yu, Zhang * Porting Intel P-state driver to Xen (fair) - Wang, Wei * VT-d Posted-interrupt (PI) (good) v1 posted - Wu, Feng * HT enabled with credit has 7.9 per perf drop. (none) kernbench demonstrated it http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/xen/devel/339409 This has existed since credit1 introduction. - Dario Faggioli * Support controlling the max C-state sub-state (fair) v3 posted Hadn't see the patch reposted. - Ross Lagerwall * IOMMU ABI for guests to map their DMA regions (fair) - Malcolm Crossley * RMRR fix (fair) RFC posted - Tiejun Chen * VPMU - 'perf' support in Xen (good) v21 posted Need reviews/final ack. - Boris Ostrovsky * PVH domU (fair) RFC posted - Elena Ufimtseva === Hypervisor ARM === * Mem_access for ARM (good) v15 posted - Tamas K Lengyel * ITS support (fair ) - Vijaya Kumar K * Add ACPI support for arm64 on Xen (fair) RFC posted - Parth Dixit * ARM: reenable support 32-bit userspace running in 64-bit guest (good) v2 posted - Ian Campbell * ARM remote processor iommu module (GPUs + IPUs) (fair) v3 posted - Andrii Tseglytskyi * ARM VM save/restore/live migration (none) Need to rebased against migrationv2 - no code posted. - None * ARM GICv2m support (none) - Suravee Suthikulanit * ARM PCI passthrough (none) - Manish Jaggi - Vijay Kilari == Xen toolstack == * Migration v2 (libxl) (none) -
Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.6 Development Update (four months reminder)
Hi Wei, * Improve RTDS scheduler (none) Change RTDS from quantum driven to event driven The improvement of the RTDS scheduler also includes supporting the functionality of setting and getting per-vcpu parameters. Chong Li lichong...@gmail.com has posted the first version of patch at http://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2015-05/msg00750.html . - Dagaen Golomb, Meng Xu If you agree that the toolstack improvement for RTDS scheduler is also for Xen 4.6, which is actually marked in the Xen Scheduler's plans (http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_Project_Schedulers), I think this line should be: Dagaen Golomb, Chong Li, Meng Xu Thanks and best regards, Meng -- --- Meng Xu PhD Student in Computer and Information Science University of Pennsylvania http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~mengxu/ ___ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
