# Title page
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# Agenda
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# Xen 4.6 timeline
# 9 months release
# Start of development: 6 Jan 2015
# Main goal of this release is to be on time
# Bonus if we can release earlier than scheduled
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# What measures are taken?
# (Sort of) scrapping soft freeze
# Focus on best bets during freeze
# Many fixes to default policy
# Now tested in OSSTest
# Aim to make XSM enabled by default
- # Removal of SEDF
# VTPM 2.0 support
- # Grant table scalability improvement
- # Use ticket lock to improve fairness
+ # Improved Grant table scalability (per-vcpu maptrack list + split locks)
+ (20VM inter-domain network traffic aggregated 9.7Gb/s -> 42.9Gb/s)
+ # Use ticket lock to improve fairness and performance
+ # Removal of SEDF
# Toolstack
- # Migration v2
+ # Libxc / libxl migration v2
# Improved SPICE/QXL support
+ # Support for Guest AHCI disk controller
# Support for displaying I/O topology information
- # Import Xenanalyze
+ # Import Xenanalyze in-tree
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# Others
- # Move Mini-OS out of tree
+ # Move Mini-OS out of Xen tree
# becomes an indpendent project
# a move to foster unikernel movement
+ # Mini-OS ARM support
+ # patches ready to be applied
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# Diffstat for Xen 4.6
# New community funded test lab is live
# Increased testing capacity (24 hosts and growing)
# More test cases
- # Stubdom
- # Libvirt
+ # Stubdomain (done)
+ # Libvirt (done)
+ # OVMF (done)
# Devstack
# Nested HVM
# Raisin
- # OVMF
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# OpenStack
- # CI loop up and running
- # Group B
+ # Xen Project CI loop up and running
+ # Xen hypervisor moved from group C to group B
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# In the pipe line
# COLO based on migration v2
# Intel Posted-interrupt support
# Toolstack support for PV / HVM USB passthrough
# Use XenServer blktap
+ # Even more LoC reduction!
# ACPI for ARM64
# Porting Linux Intel P-state driver
# PCI passthrough for ARM
# RTDS scheduler improvement
+ # XSRestrict QEMU
+ # Run QEMU with non-root user
+ # Upstream QEMU stubdomain
# and more ...