Re: Xen 4.2 Release Plan / TODO

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

Ian Campbell wrote:
> 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
>
> Lots of DONE this week which is good, including one of the big three
> remaining issues (libxl_domain_suspend asyncification) has gone in
> now. Still to come are Roger's hotplug script changes (which acutally
> cover multiple items on the list) and Dario's basic NUMA support, both
> of which I think are almost there.
>
> The updated TODO list follows.
>
> 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)
>
> 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.
>
> hypervisor, blockers:
>
>      * [BUG] stub domains broken. HVM_PARAM_DM_DOMAIN needs to reset
>        HVM_PARAM_BUFIOREQ_EVTCHN (Anthony Perard, patch sent, reviewed,
>        awaiting repost)
>
> 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:
>
>          * Interfaces which may need to be async:
>
>              * libxl_domain_suspend. Move xc_domain_save/restore into a
>                separate process (Ian Jackson, DONE).
>
>              * libxl_device_{disk,nic,vkb,add,pci}_add (and
>                remove). (Roger Pau Monné, disk&  nic included in
>                calling hotplug scripts from xl, vkb
>                trivial, not looked at pci yet)
>
>          * LIBXL_NIC_TYPE enum names are confusing. (Roger, included in
>            calling hotplug scripts series)
>
>          * use libxl_cpumap for b_info.avail_cpus instead of an int,
>            this allows setting more than 31 CPUS (Yang Z Zhang, DONE)
>
>          * use an enum for VGA interface type (e.g. Cirrus,
>            StdVGA). Allows for QXL support (in 4.3). (Zhou Peng, DONE)
>
>      * 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, posted and reviewed, awaiting a repost)
>
>      * [CHECK] 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, waiting on another iteration)

Posted v8.

>
>      * 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, DONE for both qemu-xen-upstream and
>        qemu-xen-traditional)
>
>      * [CHECK] Confirm that migration from Xen 4.1 ->  4.2 works.
>
>      * [BUG] LIBLEAFDIR et al and libfsimage do the wrong thing on
>        modern Debian/Ubuntu w/ multiarch capabilities (Matt Wilson,
>        patch posted)
>
>      * libxl to reject attempts to migrate a domain using upstream
>        qemu, due to lack of log dirty support (Ian C, patch sent,
>        reviewed, awaiting repost)
>
> hypervisor, nice to have:
>
>      * PoD performance improvements (George Dunlap, DONE)
>
>      * vMCE save/restore changes, to simplify migration 4.2->4.3
>       (Jinsong Liu)
>
> 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 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)
>
>      * [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. (Patch posted, discussion, plan to take simple
>        xencommons patch for 4.2 and revist for 4.3)
>
>
>
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