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Mst — Thu, 23 May 2013 08:48:37 GMT

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	currently most info is related to virtio-net.		currently most info is related to virtio-net.

-	Stabilization is highest priority currently.	+	TODO: add bugzilla entry links.
-	DOA test matrix (all combinations should work):	+
-	vhost: test both on and off, obviously	+
-	test: hotplug/unplug, vlan/mac filtering, netperf,	+
-	file copy both ways: scp, NFS, NTFS	+
-	guests: linux: release and debug kernels, windows	+
-	conditions: plain run, run while under migration,	+
-	vhost on/off migration	+
-	networking setup: simple, qos with cgroups	+
-	host configuration: host-guest, external-guest	+

-	=== vhost-net driver projects ===	+	=== projects in progress. contributions are still very wellcome!
-	* iovec length limitations	+
-	Developer: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>	+
-	Testing: guest to host file transfer on windows.	+

-	* mergeable buffers: fix host->guest BW regression	+	* vhost-net scalability tuning: threading for many VMs
-	Testing: netperf host to guest default flags	+	Plan: switch to workqueue shared by many VMs
-		+	Developer: Shirley Ma?, MST
-	* scalability tuning: threading for guest to guest	+
-	Developer: MST	+
	Testing: netperf guest to guest		Testing: netperf guest to guest

-	=== qemu projects ===	+	* multiqueue support in macvtap
-	* fix hotplug issues	+	multiqueue is only supported for tun.
-	Developer: MST	+	Add support for macvtap.
-	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=623735	+	Developer: Jason Wang
-		+
-	* migration with multiple macs/vlans	+
-	Developer: Jason Wang	+
-	qemu only sends ping with the first mac/no vlan:	+
-	need to send it for all macs/vlan	+

-	* bugfix: crash with illegal fd= value on command line	+	* enable multiqueue by default
		+	Multiqueue causes regression in some workloads, thus
		+	it is off by default. Detect and enable/disable
		+	automatically so we can make it on by default
	Developer: Jason Wang		Developer: Jason Wang
-	Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=581750

-	=== virtio projects ===	+	* guest programmable mac/vlan filtering with macvtap
-	* suspend/resume support	+	Developer: Dragos Tatulea?, Amos Kong
		+	Status: [[GuestProgrammableMacVlanFiltering]]

-	* API extension: improve small packet/large buffer performance:	+	* bridge without promisc mode in NIC
		+	given hardware support, teach bridge
		+	to program mac/vlan filtering in NIC
		+	Helps performance and security on noisy LANs
		+	Developer: Vlad Yasevich
		+
		+	* allow handling short packets from softirq or VCPU context
		+	Testing: netperf TCP RR - should be improved drastically
		+	netperf TCP STREAM guest to host - no regression
		+	Developer: MST
		+
		+	* Flexible buffers: put virtio header inline with packet data
		+	Developer: MST
		+
		+	* device failover to allow migration with assigned devices
		+	https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Virt_Device_Failover
		+	Developer: Gal Hammer, Cole Robinson, Laine Stump, MST
		+
		+	* Reuse vringh code for better maintainability
		+	Developer: Rusty Russell
		+
		+	* Improve stats, make them more helpful for per analysis
		+	Developer: Sriram Narasimhan
		+
		+	=== projects that are not started yet - no owner ===
		+
		+	* receive side zero copy
		+	The ideal is a NIC with accelerated RFS support,
		+	So we can feed the virtio rx buffers into the correct NIC queue.
		+	Depends on non promisc NIC support in bridge.
		+
		+	* IPoIB infiniband bridging
		+	Plan: implement macvtap for ipoib and virtio-ipoib
		+
		+	* RDMA bridging
		+
		+	* use kvm eventfd support for injecting level interrupts,
		+	enable vhost by default for level interrupts
		+
		+	* DMA emgine (IOAT) use in tun
		+
		+	* virtio API extension: improve small packet/large buffer performance:
	support "reposting" buffers for mergeable buffers,		support "reposting" buffers for mergeable buffers,
	support pool for indirect buffers		support pool for indirect buffers
		+
		+	=== vague ideas: path to implementation not clear
		+
	* ring redesign:		* ring redesign:
	find a way to test raw ring performance		find a way to test raw ring performance
	fix cacheline bounces		fix cacheline bounces
	reduce interrupts		reduce interrupts
-	Developer: MST
-	see patchset: virtio: put last seen used index into ring itself

-	=== projects involing other kernel components and/or networking stack ===
-	* guest programmable mac/vlan filtering with macvtap
-	Developer: Dragos Tatulea
-	Status: [[GuestProgrammableMacVlanFiltering]]

-	* bridge without promisc mode in NIC	+	* support more queues
-	given hardware support, teach bridge	+	We limit TUN to 8 queues
-	to program mac/vlan filtering in NIC	+
		+	* irq/numa affinity:
		+	networking goes much faster with irq pinning:
		+	both with and without numa.
		+	what can be done to make the non-pinned setup go faster?
		+
		+	* reduce conflict with VCPU thread
		+	if VCPU and networking run on same CPU,
		+	they conflict resulting in bad performance.
		+	Fix that, push vhost thread out to another CPU
		+	more aggressively.

	* rx mac filtering in tun		* rx mac filtering in tun
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	* vlan filtering in tun		* vlan filtering in tun
	the need for this is still not understood as we have filtering in bridge		the need for this is still not understood as we have filtering in bridge
-	for small # if vlans we can use BPF

	* vlan filtering in bridge		* vlan filtering in bridge
	IGMP snooping in bridge should take vlans into account		IGMP snooping in bridge should take vlans into account

-	* zero copy tx/rx for macvtap
-	Developers: tx zero copy Shirley Ma; rx zero copy Xin Xiaohui
-
-	* multiqueue (involves all of vhost, qemu, virtio, networking stack)
-	Developer: Krishna Jumar
-	Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=632751
-
-	* kvm MSI interrupt injection fast path
-	Developer: MST
-
-	* kvm eventfd support for injecting level interrupts
-
-	* DMA emgine (IOAT) use in tun
-
-	* allow handling short packets from softirq context
-	Testing: netperf TCP STREAM guest to host
-	netperf TCP RR
-
-	* irq affinity:
-	networking goes much faster with irq pinning:
-	both with and without numa.
-	what can be done to make the non-pinned setup go faster?

	=== testing projects ===		=== testing projects ===
-	* Cover test matrix with autotest	+	Keeping networking stable is highest priority.
-	* Test with windows drivers, pass WHQL	+
		+	* Run weekly test on upstream HEAD covering test matrix with autotest

	=== non-virtio-net devices ===		=== non-virtio-net devices ===
	* e1000: stabilize		* e1000: stabilize
-	Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=602205

-	=== bugzilla entries for bugs fixed ===	+	=== test matrix ===
-	* verify these are ok upstream	+
-	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=623552	+
-	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=632747	+
-	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=632745	+

-		+	DOA test matrix (all combinations should work):
-	=== abandoned projects: ===	+	vhost: test both on and off, obviously
-	* Add GSO/checksum offload support to AF_PACKET(raw) sockets.	+	test: hotplug/unplug, vlan/mac filtering, netperf,
-	status: incomplete	+	file copy both ways: scp, NFS, NTFS
-	* guest kernel 2.6.31 seems to work well. Under certain workloads,	+	guests: linux: release and debug kernels, windows
-	virtio performance has regressed with guest kernels 2.6.32 and up	+	conditions: plain run, run while under migration,
-	(but still better than userspace). A patch has been posted:	+	vhost on/off migration
-	http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg115292.html	+	networking setup: simple, qos with cgroups
-	status: might be fixed, need to test	+	host configuration: host-guest, external-guest

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	== Installing ==		== Installing ==
-	* printf '%s\n' 'QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="i386 x86_64"' 'QEMU_USER_TARGETS="i386 x86_64"' >> /etc/protage/make.conf	+	* printf '%s\n' 'QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="i386 x86_64"' 'QEMU_USER_TARGETS="i386 x86_64"' >> /etc/portage/make.conf
-	(If you haven't migrated /etc/make.conf to /etc/protage/make.conf yet, use /etc/portage instead or migrate it to /etc/protage/make.conf)	+	(If you haven't migrated /etc/make.conf to /etc/portage/make.conf yet, use /etc/make.conf instead or migrate it to /etc/portage/make.conf)
	* emerge app-emulation/qemu-kvm		* emerge app-emulation/qemu-kvm

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	=== Gentoo ===		=== Gentoo ===
		+	* Gentoo has [http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/QEMU good page about qemu/kvm in their wiki].
	* [[KvmOnGentoo\|KVM on Gentoo hosts]]		* [[KvmOnGentoo\|KVM on Gentoo hosts]]

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Xming — Thu, 09 May 2013 11:29:59 GMT

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	== Installing ==		== Installing ==
-	* printf '%s\n' 'QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="i386 x86_64"' 'QEMU_USER_TARGETS="i386 x86_64"' >> /etc/make.conf	+	* printf '%s\n' 'QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="i386 x86_64"' 'QEMU_USER_TARGETS="i386 x86_64"' >> /etc/protage/make.conf
		+	(If you haven't migrated /etc/make.conf to /etc/protage/make.conf yet, use /etc/portage instead or migrate it to /etc/protage/make.conf)
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