[Xen-devel] x86 Community Call: Nov 14 - 15:00 - 16:00 UTC - Call for Agenda Items

[Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all, 

It’s time again for the x86 community call: for the agenda see 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RxW-iwcFFuKzNjjEqLEtiwFVHgAUlk35c0EtTkRE1k4/edit#

Please propose new agenda items by next Friday (feel free to just add them to 
the document or reply to this mail)

I listed open Actions below: open actions are on Andy, Janakarajan, George and 
Doug
There is still a week and a bit to close open actions.

Note that the meeting is at a different UTC time, but at the same local times 
except for China

Regards
Lars

Open / Closed Actions from Previous calls

Jan: blocked series
x86: more power-efficient CPU parking
Blocked on HW vendors (aka Intel and AMD) - not in HW manual. That only applies 
to the last patch (aka 5). Andy says he has reviewed it, Jan disagrees.

ACTION: Andy will double check whether he reviewed patch 4
ACTION: Janakarajan will take a look and ask relevant people in AMD
ACTION: Lars to escalate Intel part to Susie Li / John Ji (done)

Jan: blocked series
x86emul: fixes, improvements, and beginnings of AVX512 support
Andy points out that a series like this takes almost a day to review, because 
of complexity and size (also of the manual). Issues with cross-correlating 
manual vs. emulator code, because code uses different names than manual. 
Renaming helpers helped a little a bit. Would be disappointing if we missed 4.12

ACTION: George and Andy: Need a separate discussion to come up with a workable 
approach and no-one has a good solution. George and Andy to bring back to 
xen-devel

Nist Security Paper
ACTION: Lars set up wiki page and add to the minutes and respond to the call 
for feedback
See 
https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Characterizing_Vulnerabilities_in_Platform_Security
  (done)

AOB
* Lars was wondering who will be at KVM forum. Maybe we can get a Xen group 
together (although this is not strictly x86 related)
Christopher Clark, Rich Persaud, Daniel Smith and Citrix folks attending => 
Lars to start a thread to coordinate a face-2-face meeting (done)
* AMD Ryzen/EPYC machines for the Xen Project test lab: any recommendations as 
per specific CPU SKU or will any do
ACTION: Lars to email Brian & Jon Grimm (done)
* Bug tracking (Doug)
ACTION: Set up cross functional call - waiting for mail by Doug

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