Hi, Thank you for the proposed tasks. I would like to work on the second one, fixing the return codes in xl.
Regards, Paulina Szubarczyk On 23 March 2016 at 16:32, Roger Pau Monné <roger....@citrix.com> wrote: > Hello, > > First of all, thanks for your interest in the Xen Project, and for wanting > to participate in Outreachy. > > Both of you have expressed interest in the "QEMU xen-blkback performance > analysis and improvements" Outreachy project, and AFAIK both of you still > need to perform your initial contribution. > > I've found a couple of small tasks that you can perform and should allow > you to complete your initial contribution to the project: > > - The first one is related to xenalyze, and it consist in creating a > header file that can be shared by both the Xen kernel and xenalyze. > You will need to move the TRC_ defines found in sched_credit.c and > sched_credit2.c to a header that's shared with xenalyze and then > replace the usage of TRC_SCHED_CLASS_EVT with the defines in the header > file [0]. > > - The second one consist in fixing the return codes of certain xl > commands. There are commands in xl that will return 0 (SUCCESS) even > when failing, which makes it very hard to write scripts that make use > of xl. A list of those commands can be found in [1], together with some > preliminary patches. Please note that those patches have comments that > you will need to address, and that you should also need to preserve the > original authorship of the patches plus yours. > > I encourage you to read the wiki page about sending patches to xen-devel > [2], it should guide you through your first steps on using git and > creating suitable patches. > > Also, please note that this is an open source project, so you will need to > coordinate in order to figure out which task are you going to take, in > order to avoid clashes or duplication of efforts. > > If you have further questions, either reply to this thread (keeping > the xen-devel mailing list on the Cc), or feel free to start another one > if you think it's more suited. > > Roger. > > [0] > http://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2016-02/msg02624.html > [1] > http://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2015-12/msg02246.html > [2] http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Submitting_Xen_Project_Patches >
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