From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Subject: Re: GSoC 2012 project brainstorming Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:00:12 -0400 Message-ID: <20120312170012.GI5369@phenom.dumpdata.com> References: <1330534437.4270.143.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1330534437.4270.143.camel-o4Be2W7LfRlXesXXhkcM7miJhflN2719@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-api-bounces-GuqFBffKawuEi8DpZVb4nw@public.gmane.org Errors-To: xen-api-bounces-GuqFBffKawuEi8DpZVb4nw@public.gmane.org To: Ian Campbell Cc: xen-devel , xen-api-GuqFBffKawuEi8DpZVb4nw@public.gmane.org List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > xen-api mailing list > xen-api-GuqFBffKawuEi8DpZVb4nw@public.gmane.org > http://lists.xen.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xen-api