Hi, I'm a computer engineering PhD student and I have the opportunity to contribute something to KVM as a class project. I found a few interesting items on the KVM TODO list (http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/TODO) that I could do. If I choose to do this I would start immediately and have about 2 months to finish. I wouldn't choose this project if I thought I would have to rely on the help of you guys, but I think my biggest challenge will be diving in and getting started. Hopefully you can help with that. My focus is on computer architecture so the x86 topics really interested me. Here are the specific ones that I think I could do. I would start by implementing one, and if that ends up not being substantial enough for a final project, I'd do another. 1. Improve mmu page eviction algorithm (currently FIFO, change to approximate LRU). 2. On-demand register access, really, copying all registers all the time is gross. 3. Implement mmx and sse memory move instructions; useful for guests that use multimedia extensions for accessing vga (partially done) 4. Implement an operation queue for the emulator. The emulator often calls userspace to perform a read or a write, but due to inversion of control it actually restarts instead of continuing. The queue would allow it to replay all previous operations until it reaches the point it last stopped. 5. convert more instructions to direct dispatch (function pointer in decode table) 6. move init_emulate_ctxt() into x86_decode_insn() and other emulator entry points Have any of these already been implemented? It seems number 2 and possibly 1 already have been. I think this list is quite outdated, so is there something else along these lines of these updates that I could help with? Thanks, Brandon -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
