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= Attendees =
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* Ian Campbell
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* Matt Wilson
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* Jan Beulich
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* Boris Ostrovsky
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* Ravi Suravee
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* Daniel De Graaf
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* Anthony Liguori
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= Review ACTION items. =
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* Recurring need for pings on VMX/SVM/IOMMU patches
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** {{Action|Jun}} to figure out the focal point. {{Tick}} Will Auld
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* xend
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** {{Action|Matt & Konrad}} to reply to the 4.4 planning thread with their BLOCKERS. {{NotDone}} (Konrad: absent)
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*** For Matt's, list discussion about SXP -- better to change the higher level stack. Matt will post this to xen-devel
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** {{Action|Ian}} to write patch to warn when xm is used {{Tick}}
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= Current technical challenges. =
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* PVH next steps
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** Right people not on this call
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** Ian suggested to George to have a separate call
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** Jan would like to be invited
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= Coordination on current and future work =
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* Konrad absent. All delayed to next time.
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** Proposals for interships program for summer or winter in Xen ecosystem. (Konrad) {{Tick}} see [[AB_Votes/Outreach_Program_For_Women_Round_7]]
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** SR-IOV, PCI passthrough and all that fun. (Konrad)
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** SR-IOV, PCI passthrough gaps. (Konrad)
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* Boris. How much testing did we have for NMI injection into PV domains.
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** Jan, only recently implemented in pvops, but has worked for a long time in classis/SuSE kernel
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** Works for internal self NMI
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** Only dom0 might receive a real hardware NMI forwarded
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** Jan: Not a lot of testing of a high rate NMI (e.g. performance monitoring). Currently NMI is a rare event like a machine check.
   
 
[[Category:Technical Coordination Team]]
 
[[Category:Technical Coordination Team]]

Latest revision as of 15:46, 4 November 2013

Attendees

  • Ian Campbell
  • Matt Wilson
  • Jan Beulich
  • Boris Ostrovsky
  • Ravi Suravee
  • Daniel De Graaf
  • Anthony Liguori

Review ACTION items.

  • Recurring need for pings on VMX/SVM/IOMMU patches

    • Pictogram voting comment 15px.png Action Jun: to figure out the focal point. Will Auld
  • xend

    • Pictogram voting comment 15px.png Action Matt & Konrad: to reply to the 4.4 planning thread with their BLOCKERS. (Konrad: absent)
      • For Matt's, list discussion about SXP -- better to change the higher level stack. Matt will post this to xen-devel

    • Pictogram voting comment 15px.png Action Ian: to write patch to warn when xm is used

Current technical challenges.

  • PVH next steps
    • Right people not on this call
    • Ian suggested to George to have a separate call
    • Jan would like to be invited

Coordination on current and future work

  • Konrad absent. All delayed to next time.
    • Proposals for interships program for summer or winter in Xen ecosystem. (Konrad) see AB_Votes/Outreach_Program_For_Women_Round_7
    • SR-IOV, PCI passthrough and all that fun. (Konrad)
    • SR-IOV, PCI passthrough gaps. (Konrad)
  • Boris. How much testing did we have for NMI injection into PV domains.
    • Jan, only recently implemented in pvops, but has worked for a long time in classis/SuSE kernel
    • Works for internal self NMI
    • Only dom0 might receive a real hardware NMI forwarded
    • Jan: Not a lot of testing of a high rate NMI (e.g. performance monitoring). Currently NMI is a rare event like a machine check.