Re: GSoC 2012 project brainstorming

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

> > Sign me up as a mentor for that!
> 
> Please update http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/GSoC_2012_Ideas as
> appropriate ;-)

Done!
> 
> > > 
> > > HYPERVISOR
> > > ----------
> > > - insmod Xen
> > > - event channel limits
> > > - NUMA
> > 
> > Yeah, we need that. I think there were some patches posted for that.. whatever
> > happend to them?
> 
> I think there are some patches, which have gone in and various ideas for
> ongoing work but I'm not sure what the details were -- hopefully whoever
> shouted out NUMA (this was a brainstorm remember ;-)) will chime in.

Dulloor Rao had some patches: http://old-list-archives.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-04/msg00105.html

> 
> > > 
> > > - Infiniband
> > 
> > Huh? InfiniBand PV drivers?
> 
> I think this is about using Infiniband for extra fast migration, by
> pumping the migration data over infiniband instead of a normal network.
> But again hopefully someone who knows what that bullet was will chime
> in. I seem to remember someone mentioning it at the Munich hackathon.
> 
> Ian.