[RFC] libxl: autogenerate type definitions and destructor functions
From Ian Campbell – 8 Request for Comment Patches at http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-08/msg00099.html This series is an RFC (I couldn’t convince “hg email” to mark mails other...
View ArticleRequest for Comment Patch : Xen PCI Frontend Driver
From Konrad Wilk on xen-devel: This patch set contains the groundwork and the driver itself for Xen Paravirtualized (PV) domains to use PCI pass-through devices. These patches utilize the Xen-SWIOTLB...
View Article[XCP] RFC: Emergency Network Reset
From Rob Hoes in xen-api: This is a proposal to introduce functionality in XCP to reset the networking configuration of an XCP host to the state it would be in after a fresh install. This is useful in...
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Request for Comment – xl: start implementing “the policy” wrt memory
Full RFC Patch - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-08/msg00359.html It is libxl policy to return objects to callers which the caller must free. It therefore a matter of...
View Article[XCP] RFC: cross-host VDI.copy
From Dave Scott – http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-api/2010-08/msg00031.html I’ve written a proposal on the wiki for “Cross-host VDI.copy” i.e. the ability to copy VDIs (disks) and...
View ArticleRFC xen device model support
From Stefano Stabellini – http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-08/msg00649.html this is the long awaited patch series to add xen device model support in qemu; the main author is...
View Article[RFC] Removing libxc xc_ptrace interface
From Ian Campbell – http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-08/msg00728.html The last in-tree user of the xc_ptrace functionality was removed in changeset: 21732:eb34666befcc user:...
View Article[RFC] Handling of number of cores the guest sees
From Andre Przywara: while experimenting with guest NUMA configurations I realized that Xen injects the host’s core number into each guest. I believe this behavior is wrong, the number of cores should...
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NUMA and Xen: Part 1, Introduction
NUMA? What’s NUMA? Having to deal with a Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) machine is becoming more and more common. This is true no matter whether you are part of an engineering research center with...
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NUMA and Xen: Part II, Scheduling and Placement
Where were we? So, here it is what we said up to now. Basically: NUMA is becoming increasingly common; properly dealing with NUMA is important for performance; one can tweak Xen for NUMA, but it would...
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