PVOps Update

PV-ops Linux kernel update Jeremy Fitzhardinge & Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Xen Summit at AMD 1 April 28-29, 2010

Agenda  Primer on para-virtualized operations  Pros & cons of PV-ops vs XenLinux  Upstream strategy  Current status  Outstanding issues  Explanation of GIT branches Xen Summit at AMD 2 April 28-29, 2010

Primer (1/2)  http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenParavirtOps  Linux kernel can be booted on:  Baremetal  Hardware assisted virtualization (HVM)  Para-virtualization (PV)  PV requires modifications in the Linux kernel.  In the past, two variants of the kernel:  baremetal (which can also do HVM) - kernel  Para-virtualized kernel (kernel-xen) Xen Summit at AMD 3 April 28-29, 2010

Primer (2/2)  Para-Virtualization Operations (PV-ops):  Detects if running in HVM, VMWare, Xen, KVM  Patches all low-level privileged operations (memory updates, spinlocks, etc) with appropiate virtualization aware calls.  End-result:  One kernel to boot under different X86 platforms.  Lower QA  No #ifdef CONFIG_XEN (frowned on by everybody) Xen Summit at AMD 4 April 28-29, 2010

PV-ops & XenLinux (1/2)  XenLinux (2.6.18, 2.6.27, 2.6.31, 2.6.32):  Runs only under Xen.  Has much big breadth of Xen back/front drivers (PV scsi, PV usb, Netchannel 2) and can work with proprietary drivers: nvidia, acronis snapapi, etc.  Super stable (2.6.18, 2.6.27)  Not upstreamable  Performance  PV-ops (2.6.31, 2.6.32):  Lower testing requirements (one kernel)  Share code base with X86 common code function. Xen Summit at AMD 5  New development April 28-29, 2010

PV-ops & XenLinux (2/2)  http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenDom0Kernels  XenLinux distros:  RHEL5, OVM  OpenSUSE 11/SLES11  Debian (lenny, etch)  XenSource (XCP)  PV-ops distributions:  Fedora Core (unofficial)  http://myoung.fedorapeople.org/dom0  Debian squeeze  http://packages.debian.org/xen-linux-system-2.6.32 Xen Summit at AMD 6 April 28-29, 2010

Upstream strategy (1/3)  Three code ”camps”:  DomU (unprivileged PV guests). Mostly frontend drivers and Linux has many already in: Network, Disk, Framebuffer, Keyboard, and Console. Missing: PCI frontend.  Dom0 (privileged PV guest). Main guest handling PCI devices, ACPI, IOAPIC, KMS, XServer. PAT, MTRR, MSI, etc. None are upstream.  Shared between baremetal, DomU and Dom0. For example: Software IOMMU (SWIOTLB). Xen Summit at AMD 7 April 28-29, 2010

Upstream strategy (2/3)  Jeremy git branch has DomU, Dom0 and shared code.  Konrad git has DomU and shared code.  Strategy is to seperate the functionality patches in separate branches so they can be submitted upstream as whole ”functional” pieces. For example: xen/core, xen/dom0/apic  But many are built on top of each other. For example: XenPCI front requires Xen-SWIOTLB. Xen Summit at AMD 8 April 28-29, 2010

Upstream strategy (3/3)  Three-pronged strategy:  Constantly refactor code for upstream submission.  Stabilize existing Dom0 branch so that distros can pick it up (Debian, Fedora, Qubes-OS, XenServer)  Rebase existing branches against newer kernels to keep up Xen Summit at AMD 9 April 28-29, 2010

Status (1/3) - refactoring  SWIOTLB changes submitted upstream  Xen-SWIOTLB – waiting  Xen PCI and Xen PCI frontend– waiting  Has been tested by community members with success  pv/merge-2.6.33, pv/merge.2.6.34-rc3  PV on HVM – work in progress  PAT – being tested  IO APIC/ACPI – researching solution  MSI – researching solution Xen Summit at AMD 10 April 28-29, 2010

Status (2/3) - stabilizing  xen/stable-2.6.[31|32|33].x:  Community providing many reports  And patches as well  And Wiki writeups!  Tracking mainline long-term stable-2.6.[31|32|33] while incorporating Xen fixes  xen/next is the development branch:  Xen bug-fixes only  New ideas on solving problems (ACPI GSI IRQ 20)  What is stable trickles down to xen/stable-2.6.[31|32| 33].x Xen Summit at AMD 11 April 28-29, 2010

Status (3/3) - rebasing  Konrad's pv/pcifront-2.6.3[X] and swiotlb-0.Y rebased to keep up with upstream tree.  Unprivileged PV (DomU) and X86 shared code  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen.git  Jeremy's xen/stable-2.6.3[X]:  privileged & unprivileged PV & X86 shared code.  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen.git  .34 still work in progress Xen Summit at AMD 12 April 28-29, 2010

Outstanding issues  Desktop video card (Nvidia, ATI, Intel)  http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenPVOPSDRM  DRM  X Server  Kernel Mode Setting  Direct Rendering Manager/TTM  Network between DomU and Dom0 Xen Summit at AMD 13 April 28-29, 2010

Thanks  Thanks to Xen community who have taken the time and effort to work with and on the PV-ops kernel. Xen Summit at AMD 14 April 28-29, 2010

Jeremy's GIT branches  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen.git  xen/next – base Xen developments against 2.6.32, no kernel updates or fixes  xen/stable-2.6.[31|32|33] – tracking mainline long-term stable-2.6.[31|32|33] while incorporating Xen updates  xen/core – PV and shared code. PTE, IRQ  xen/dev-evtchn – PV and shared code. Events  xen/dom0/core – privileged PV (dom0) code. MTRR, PAT, HPET, etc  xen/dom0/msi – privileged PV (dom0) MSI code  xen/backend/core – Xen backend base Xen Summit at AMD 15 April 28-29, 2010

Konrad's GIT branches  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen.git  pv/pcifront-2.6.[32|33|34] – Xen PCI & Xen PCI frontend driver.  xen-swiotlb-0.7 – latest Xen-SWIOTLB code  pv/merge.2.6.[32|33|34] – both branches above combined Xen Summit at AMD 16 April 28-29, 2010

Stefano's GIT branches  git://xenbits.xen.org/people/sstabellini/linux-pvhvm  2.6.32-pvhvm – development branch Xen Summit at AMD 17 April 28-29, 2010

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