Re: [Xen-devel] 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 <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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@xxxxxxxxx> 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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