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From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
To: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell-Sxgqhf6Nn4DQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
Cc: xen-devel
	<xen-devel-GuqFBffKawuULHF6PoxzQEEOCMrvLtNR@public.gmane.org>,
	xen-api-GuqFBffKawuEi8DpZVb4nw@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: GSoC 2012 project brainstorming
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:00:12 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120312170012.GI5369@phenom.dumpdata.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1330534437.4270.143.camel-o4Be2W7LfRlXesXXhkcM7miJhflN2719@public.gmane.org>

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 04:53:57PM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> Below are a few ideas which have been floating around as potential
> projects (or broad subject areas for projects) for GSoC this year.
> 
> If you want any more information on any particular item then please ask.
> Likewise if you have any ideas of your own please feel free to chip in.
> 
> If you think you might be interested in a project, either as mentor or
> potential student, then please add it to the wiki page at
> http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/GSoC_2012_Ideas
> 
> Ian.
> 
> TOOLS
> -----
> - pv grub2
> - xapi support in libvirt
> - make xapi use libxl
> - compile xapi on ARM
> - OpenXenManager
> - driver domains
> - PV dbus
> - HA daemon for Remus
> - HA daemon for XCP
> 
> PERF
> ----
> - Oprofile

So the oprofile mega patch posted by Michale seems to work. But it is
riddled with #ifdef CONFIG_XEN so not very nice.

> - Linux perf tools in guest

 from this e-mail thread:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/2/12/74

it actually seems to work in dom0 - well, there is a bug so not exactly good.

But having the tool to work with dom0 and domU would be super.

Sign me up as a mentor for that!


> 
> HYPERVISOR
> ----------
> - insmod Xen
> - event channel limits
> - NUMA

Yeah, we need that. I think there were some patches posted for that.. whatever
happend to them?

> 
> MEMORY
> ------
> - disk based memory sharing
> - memory scanner
> - paging replacing PoD
> - VM Fork
> - Copy on read (past VDI boot)
> 
> 
> IO
> --
> - PV OpenGL/Gallium
> - PV USB
> - PV USB3
> - PV SCSI
> - PVFB in Xorg
> - Infiniband

Huh? InfiniBand PV drivers?

> 
> 
> STORAGE
> -------
> - gluster/ceph plugins
> 
> 
> QEMU
> ----
> - BSD libc
> - upstream QEMU stubdoms
> 
> 
> TESTS
> -----
> - better web reporting
> - more tests
> - upstream linux
> 
> 
> DISTROS
> -------
> - packaging stubdoms
> - xen on centos6
> - driver domains
> - figure out the VM format issue
> - XSM in distros
> 
> 
> 
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-03-12 17:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-29 16:53 GSoC 2012 project brainstorming Ian Campbell
     [not found] ` <1330534437.4270.143.camel-o4Be2W7LfRlXesXXhkcM7miJhflN2719@public.gmane.org>
2012-02-29 18:25   ` [Xen-devel] " Pasi Kärkkäinen
2012-03-12 17:00   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [this message]
     [not found]     ` <20120312170012.GI5369-6K5HmflnPlqSPmnEAIUT9EEOCMrvLtNR@public.gmane.org>
2012-03-12 17:25       ` Ian Campbell
     [not found]         ` <1331573131.23971.165.camel-o4Be2W7LfRlXesXXhkcM7miJhflN2719@public.gmane.org>
2012-03-14 18:56           ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-03-12 17:48     ` [Xen-API] " Dario Faggioli
2012-03-14 16:59   ` [Xen-devel] " Ian Campbell
     [not found]     ` <1331744386.23971.496.camel-o4Be2W7LfRlXesXXhkcM7miJhflN2719@public.gmane.org>
2012-03-14 17:55       ` Dave Scott
     [not found]         ` <81A73678E76EA642801C8F2E4823AD21D7724CFA2D-aFusIB7tbcLeU4JHVX8hdHnr0TU713UqXqFh9Ls21Oc@public.gmane.org>
2012-03-15  7:51           ` Ian Campbell
     [not found]             ` <1331797918.13956.27.camel-ztPmHsLffjjnO4AKDKe2m+kiAK3p4hvP@public.gmane.org>
2012-03-15 10:02               ` Dave Scott
     [not found]                 ` <81A73678E76EA642801C8F2E4823AD21D7724CFA32-aFusIB7tbcLeU4JHVX8hdHnr0TU713UqXqFh9Ls21Oc@public.gmane.org>
2012-03-15 10:13                   ` Ian Campbell
2012-03-15 15:11                   ` Stefano Stabellini

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