Re: Xen 4.2 TODO / Release Plan

[Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@citrix.com>]

Ian Campbell wrote:
> A bit late this week, due to my being on vacation. I'm on vacation
> next two Monday as well so it will be late then too.
>
> Plan for a 4.2 release:
> http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2012-03/msg00793.html
>
> The time line is as follows:
>
> 19 March        -- TODO list locked down
> 2 April         -- Feature Freeze
>                                                  <<  WE ARE HERE
> When It's Ready -- First release candidate
> Weekly          -- RCN+1 until release
>
> The updated TODO list follows. Per the release plan a strong case will
> now have to be made as to why new items should be added to the list,
> especially as a blocker, rather than deferred to 4.3.
>
> If you are aware of any bugs which must/should be fixed for 4.2 then
> please reply to this thread (otherwise I may not remember to pick them
> up next week)
>
> Other than that I think we should consider the freeze to be in full
> effect and the bar to entry to 4.2 to be very high.
>
> hypervisor, blockers:
>
>      * None
>
> tools, blockers:
>
>      * libxl stable API -- we would like 4.2 to define a stable API
>        which downstream's can start to rely on not changing. Aspects of
>        this are:
>
>          * LIBXL_NIC_TYPE enum names are confusing.
>
>          * Interfaces which may need to be async:
>
>              * libxl_domain_suspend. Move xc_domain_save/restore into a
>                separate process (IanJ, patches posted).
>
>              * libxl_device_{disk,nic,vkb,add,pci}_add (and
>                remove). (Roger, patches posted for disk&  nic, vkb
>                trivial, not looked at pci yet)
>
>          * use libxl_cpumap for b_info.avail_cpus instead of an int,
>            this"allows setting more than 31 CPUS (Yang Z Zhang, patches
>            posted)
>
>          * use an enum for VGA interface type (e.g. Cirrus,
>            StdVGA). Allows for QXL support (in 4.3). (Zhou Peng,
>            patches posted)
>
>      * xl compatibility with xm:
>
>          * [BUG] cannot create an empty CD-ROM drive on HVM guest,
>            reported by Fabio Fantoni in<4F9672DD.2080902@tiscali.it>
>
>          * does not automatically try to select a (set of) node(s) on
>            which to create a VM and pin its vcpus there. (Dario
>            Faggioli, patches reposted, under review)
>
>      * More formally deprecate xm/xend. Manpage patches already in
>        tree. Needs release noting and communication around -rc1 to
>        remind people to test xl.
>
>      * calling hotplug scripts from xl (Linux and NetBSD) (Roger Pau
>        Monné, patches posted)

Another round posted (v6), waiting for review.

>
>      * Block script support -- follows on from hotplug script (Roger
>        Pau Monné, "just be a matter of removing an "if"")
>
>      * Adjustments needed for qdisk backend to work on non-pvops Linux.
>        "qemu/xendisk: set maximum number of grants to be used" (Jan Beulich)
>
>      * Confirm that migration from Xen 4.1 ->  4.2 works...
>
>      * [BUG] Build failure due to gcc -Wswitch on some distros
>        vs. LIBXL_DOMAIN_TYPE. (Dario Faggioli, DONE)
>
> hypervisor, nice to have:
>
>      * PoD performance improvements (George Dunlap, patches posted)
>
> tools, nice to have:
>
>      * xl compatibility with xm:
>
>          * Accept "xl cr /dev/null param=value" to provide all config
>            on the command line (W. Michael Petullo, patch posted)
>
>      * libxl: Add API to retrieve domain console tty (Bamvor Jian
>        Zhang, DONE)
>
>      * libxl stable API
>
>          * libxl_wait_for_free_memory/libxl_wait_for_memory_target.
>            Interface needs an overhaul, related to
>            locking/serialization over domain create. IanJ to add note
>            about this interface being substandard but otherwise defer
>            to 4.3.
>
>          * Interfaces which may need to be async:
>
>              * libxl_cdrom_insert. Should be easy once
>                disk_{add,remove} done. This is basically a helper
>                function and its functionality can be implemented in
>                terms of the libxl_disk_* interfaces. If this is not
>                done in time we should document as a substandard
>                interface which is subject to change post 4.2.
>
>      * xl.cfg(5) documentation patch for qemu-upstream
>        videoram/videomem support:
>        http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2012-05/msg00250.html
>        qemu-upstream doesn't support specifying videomem size for the
>        HVM guest cirrus/stdvga.  (but this works with
>        qemu-xen-traditional). (Pasi Kärkkäinen)
>
>      * qemu-upstream for NetBSD (Roger)

Patch committed to netbsd kernel, awaiting approval.

>
>      * [BUG] long stop during the guest boot process with qcow image,
>        reported by Intel: http://bugzilla.xen.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1821
>
>      * [BUG] vcpu-set doesn't take effect on guest, reported by Intel:
>        http://bugzilla.xen.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1822
>
>      * Load blktap driver from xencommons initscript if available, thread at:
>        <db614e92faf743e20b3f.1337096977@kodo2>. To be fixed more
>        properly in 4.3
>
>
>
>
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