Google Summer of Code 2021

Introduction

Like in the previous years, libvirt applied for Google Summer of Code 2021. The program timeline can be found here. This page lists accepted projects only. For the list of ideas go here.

Contacts

  • IRC (GSoC specific): #qemu-gsoc on irc.oftc.net

  • IRC (development and general): #virt on irc.oftc.net

  • libvir-list

Please contact the respective mentor for the idea you are interested in. For general questions feel free to contact me: Michal Prívozník (IRC nick: mprivozn).

Project ideas

The list of project ideas can be found here.

Accepted projects

libnbd / nbdcopy accleration using io_uring

Summary: Add io_uring support to libnbd and use it to accelerate nbdcopy

libnbd is a client library for accessing NBD servers. io_uring is a new set of kernel APIs for efficient asynchronous I/O. nbdcopy is a tool for copying between NBD servers which aims to be as fast and efficient as possible. This project would investigate extending libnbd to support io_uring (as an alternative to non-blocking send/recv), and then how to use that to make nbdcopy work as fast as possible under Linux.

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Test driver API coverage

Summary: Expand API coverage in the test driver

The test driver (as accessed via the test:/// URI scheme) is a fake virt driver designed to let applications test against libvirt with fake data and not have any effect on the host. As can be seen from the API coverage report https://libvirt.org/hvsupport.html there are quite a few APIs not yet implemented in the test driver. Ideally the test driver would have 100% API coverage, and so the goal of the project is to address gaps in the API coverage. The work is incremental, so does not matter if not all APIs are implemented as part of the project - any amount of expanded coverage is sufficient and useful.

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