TCT Meeting/October 2013 Minutes

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
  • 
     Action Jun: to figure out the focal point. ✓ Will Auld
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  • 
     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
  • 
     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.