Release checklist

[samoht]

We can use this issue to track the list of things to be done before the release:

• [x] have basic tests working on the TCP/IP stack 1
• [ ] first bunch of patches to clean-up the stack, to prepare synjitsu 2
• [ ] more complex tests for TCP/IP (testing the internal state)
• [ ] tests for jitsu (need to design the tests -- that's not easy)
• [ ] tests for synjitsu (need to design the test -- that's not easy)
• [ ] merge synjitsu patches 3

Points 1. and 2. have made good progress, and I've managed to use 6. to transfer some SYN packets via xenstore in a manual experiment. What is missing is an easy way to reproduce jitsu settings and run tests in there (ideally without having to mess with the system configuration), think on how we can test synjitsu and write the tests. And decide if we want to merge synjitsu patches in mirage-tcpip at all or design a more generic scheme.

Timeline:

• [today] I can integrate 1. and 2. before the end of the week.
• [tomorrow] Magnus can do the screencast with 6. with seems to be working in my vagrant image.

[MagnusS]

1 has been merged. I made a screencast for NSDI using what we had - it worked fine, but currently requires a pinned tcpip stack and manual init/cleanup of Xenstore.

Any progress on 2?

[samoht]

@hannesm had made few remarks regarding ARP spoofing that can be an issue with the patch (and with synjitsu in general). Would be great to have more advices on that before doing anything more.