Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.2 TODO List Update

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2012-01-25 at 14:33 +0000, Roger Pau Monnà wrote:
> 2012/1/23 Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> > Newly updated list follows. Please send me corrections (especially
> > "done"). I've stopped CCing everyone, since I guess it is mostly spam to
> > the majority.
> >
> > 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 posted, seems close to going
> >                in.
> >              * 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 Jackson, posted several rounds,
> >                nearing completion?)
> >              * drop libxl_device_model_info (move bits to build_info or
> >                elsewhere as appropriate) (Ian Campbell, first RFC sent)
> >              * add libxl_defbool and generally try and arrange that
> >                memset(foo,0,...) requests the defaults (Ian Campbell,
> >                first RFC sent)
> >              * topologyinfo datastructure should be a list of tuples,
> >                not a tuple of lists. (nobody currently looking at this,
> >                not 100% sure this makes sense, could possibly defer and
> >                change after 4.2 in a compatible way)
> >      * xl to use json for machine readable output instead of sexp by
> >        default (Ian Campbell to revisit existing patch)
> >      * xl support for vcpu pinning (Dario Faggioli)
> >      * xl feature parity with xend wrt driver domain support (George
> >        Dunlap)
> >      * Integrate qemu+seabios upstream into the build (patches
> >        reposted, pending). 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 -- patch posted)
> >
> > 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)
> >      * Block script support -- follows on from hotplug script (Roger
> >        Pau Monet)
> >      * libyajl v2 support (patch posted by Roger Pau Monet, blocked on
> >        autoconf?)
> >      * 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)
> 
> 
> Just a random thought, but I find it quite annoying to need latex to
> compile the documentation. I think it will be wise to create a new
> Makefile target, like man-pages and install-man-pages to allow the
> user to build and install man pages only (or don't abort docs build if
> latex is not found). Personally I don't have latex on my server, and I
> don't want to install it, but I would like to have the man pages when
> building Xen from source.

"make -C docs man-pages" will do what you want.

I must admit I thought latex was optional and that "make docs" would
simply skip those docs if it wasn't installed -- that's what the "if
which $(TOOL)" construct used in there is (supposed to be) doing.

Ian.

> 
> > Tools, need to decide if pre- or post-4.2 feature:
> >
> >      * Autoconf (Roger Pau Monet posted a patch)
> >
> >
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