Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.9 Development Update

[Oleksandr Tyshchenko <olekstysh@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, all

On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 5:20 PM, Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> This email only tracks big items for xen.git tree. Please reply for items you
> woulk like to see in 4.9 so that people have an idea what is going on and
> prioritise accordingly.
>
> You're welcome to provide description and use cases of the feature you're
> working on.
>
> = Timeline =
>
> We now adopt a fixed cut-off date scheme. We will release twice a
> year. The upcoming 4.9 timeline are as followed:
>
> * Last posting date: March 24th, 2017
> * Hard code freeze: April 7th, 2017
> * RC1: TBD
> * Release: June 2, 2017
>
> Note that we don't have freeze exception scheme anymore. All patches
> that wish to go into 4.9 must be posted no later than the last posting
> date. All patches posted after that date will be automatically queued
> into next release.
>
> RCs will be arranged immediately after freeze.
>
> We recently introduced a jira instance to track all the tasks (not only big)
> for the project. See: https://xenproject.atlassian.net/projects/XEN/issues.
>
> Most of the tasks tracked by this e-mail also have a corresponding jira task
> referred by XEN-N.
>
> = Projects =
>
> == Hypervisor ==
>
> *  Per-cpu tasklet
>   -  XEN-28
>   -  Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
>
> *  Add support of rcu_idle_{enter,exit}
>   -  XEN-27
>   -  Dario Faggioli
>
> === x86 ===
>
> *  Boot Xen on EFI platforms using GRUB2 (multiboot2 protocol) (v16)
>   -  XEN-42
>   -  Daniel Kiper
>
> *  Allow ioreq server interface to support XenGT (v7)
>   -  XEN-43
>   -  Yu Zhang
>   -  Paul Durrant
>
> *  PVHv2 support
>   -  XEN-44
>   -  Roger Pau Monne
>
> *  vNVDIMM support for HVM (RFC)
>   -  XEN-45
>   -  Haozhong Zhang
>
> *  Completion of the x86 insn emulator (as far as possible)
>   -  XEN-46
>   -  Jan Beulich
>
> *  Getting guest CPUID handling into a better shape
>   -  XEN-47
>   -  Andrew Cooper
>
> *  Enable L2 Cache Allocation Technology (v8)
>   -  XEN-37
>   -  Yi Sun
>
> *  Enable Memory Bandwidth Allocation (RFC)
>   -  XEN-48
>   -  Yi Sun
>
> *  Intel LMCE support: (v2)
>   -  XEN-68
>   -  Haozhon Zhang
>
> === ARM ===
>
> *  ITS emulation (Dom0 only) (v1)
>   -  XEN-2
>   -  Andre Przywara
>
> *  Support Tegra SoCs (RFC)
>   -  XEN-49
>   -  Kyle Temkin
>
> == Toolstack ==
>
> *  Libxl PVSCSI support (v13)
>   -  XEN-50
>   -  Olaf Hering
>
> *  Libxl depriv QEMU
>   -  Ian Jackson
>
> *  Remove blktap2
>   -  XEN-8
>   -  Wei Liu
>
> == Mini-OS ==
>
> == PV Drivers ==
>
> *  Xen transport for 9pfs
>   -  XEN-51
>   -  Stefano Stabellini
>
> *  PV calls
>   -  XEN-63
>   -  Stefano Stabellini
>
> *  Multi-touch
>   -  Oleksandr Andrushchenko
>   -  Oleksanr Grytsov
>
> *  Sound
>   -  Oleksandr Andrushchenko
>   -  Oleksanr Grytsov
>
> *  Display
>   -  Oleksandr Andrushchenko
>   -  Oleksanr Grytsov
>
> == GRUB ==
>
> *  Support booting Xen ARM
>   -  XEN-67
>   -  Fu Wei
>
> == Testing ==
>
> *  Continuous fuzzing of Xen code using Google oss-fuzz
>   -  Wei Liu
>
> == Blocker ==
>
> *  Fix issues with zero-length records in migration v2
>   -  XEN-5
>   -  Andrew Cooper
>
> == Completed ==
>
> *  Rework gcov support in hypervisor
>   -  Wei Liu
>
> *  XenStore XS_DIRECTORY_PART extension
>   -  Juergen Gross
>
> == Deferred ==
>
> *  Altp2m for ARM
>   -  Sergej Proskurin
>
>
> = Notes =
>
> * Revert commit 997382b771 or surround the code with NDEBUG before the
>   release (see e-mail <58A2EF4E02000078001399F9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>)
>
>
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Hi, all.

I am working on both non-shared IOMMU support on ARM and IPMMU-VMSA driver.
Now they are RFC patches [1]. Want to see them in Xen 4.10).

[1] https://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2017-03/msg01905.html

-- 
Regards,

Oleksandr Tyshchenko

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