Xen Roadmap/Long term
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Areas of work
Things that we should be thinking about to generate work to do:
- Performance
- Scalability
- New hardware
- New features
- Integration with other tools
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Elements slated for 4.3
NUMA affinity for Credit Scheduler
| Allow a "NUMA affinity" that is a suggestion to the scheduler which node to run on |
| tags 4.3 NUMA performance |
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NUMA memory migration
| Ability to move a VM's memory from one node to another |
| tags 4.3 NUMA performance |
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PV with HVM extensions
| Using HVM extensions for PV guests |
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ARM server port
| Xen and Linux trees ready to run guests on the ARM server |
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blktap3
| A user-mode version of blktap; allows blktap to be used on pvops kernels |
| tags 4.3 pvops-parity |
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A number of really cool features rely on blktap; unfortunately blktap is only avaiable in "classic" Xen kernels. Thiswill allow them to be used |
Linux-based stubdom
| Configuring a very small version of Linux that can run as a service domain (or "stub domain") |
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