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[Xen-ia64-devel] Meeting Summary taken from Xen-ia64 Next Steps Discussi

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Subject: [Xen-ia64-devel] Meeting Summary taken from Xen-ia64 Next Steps Discussion during Xen Summit
From: "Yang, Fred" <fred.yang@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 22:13:13 -0800
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Xen-ia64 Community members,

Following is the agreement/summary taken from Xen/ia64 Next Steps
Discussion session held during Xen Summit at January 17, 2006.  The
items in  http://www.xensource.com/files/xs0106_ia64_nextsteps_disc.pdf
are fully discussed

The Work session attendees had agreed following actions in order to move
Xen/ia64 to the next stage, and the efforts will be started immediately.

1. Physical Memory support for Domain0
     * PPC port has the similar P2M issue as Xen-ia64
     * Group agreed P2M is the route to take, the detail implementation
can be between P2M & VP approaches to change XenLinux as  less as
possible
     * To merge P2M into mainline code may cause Xen-ia64-unstable to be
buggy or unstable for a period of time.
        Since this is a must feature to go, we should merge the code and
get community to work together to get system stablized
     * Fujitsu has been looking into this effort and will contribute
this effort
     * To Enable P2M for Domain0 is must for Xen-ia64 and should be done
early to enable VBD/VNIF & driver domain to come
2. Memory enhancement for page reference count
     * this can possibly cause stability issue and affecting domain
destory
     * This item is a must for Xen-ia64
3. Virtual Interrupt Controller to let Xen owns physical IOSAPIC
     * This can help to address SMP guest for para-domains as well as a
must for driver domain
     * a must item for xen-ia64
4. VTLB/VHPT SMP Support
     * To support next step SMP guest support, hash VTLB and same VHPT
model should be adapted
     * A patch to extend hash VTLB/VHPT to hookup for para-virtualized
Domain should be added 
        Code should try to be built with option to able to pull original
VHPT model back per future performance tunning needs
     * A must item for Xen/ia64 to get to SMP guest support
5. Reboot/Destroy Domains
     * A must item after page reference count is done
6. Hypercalls
     * Can be adapted per P2M and future needs
7. Timer Virtualization
     * This is defineitely worth to do to help the performance

This summary lists major effort to overhaul overall Xen/ia64
infrastructure, we welcome developers to contribute into these efforts

-Fred Yang

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