TODO checklist

[iefserge]

I'll use this issue as tasks checklist. Let me know if you want to hack on something from this list or anything else :)

Network stack:

• [ ] Cleanup network stack / architecture
• [x] Basic virtio-net driver
• [ ] Test virtio-net driver under high load
• [ ] Add sent callbacks
• [ ] Ethernet transfer packet queue
• [ ] Routing table, route program
• [x] UDP protocol
• [ ] UDP multicast
• [x] Implement DHCP protocol
• [ ] Zero-copy receive (payload+headers), ArrayBuffer resize
• [ ] Network ARP requests / reply and caching / announce
• [ ] Full IPv4 packet parser
• [ ] Implement TCP protocol
• [ ] Implement ICMP protocol, respond to pings, ping program
• [ ] Define low-level socket API for applications
• [x] Implement DNS client
• [ ] Implement DNS server
• [ ] Implement IPv4 fragmentation / do not fragment
• [ ] Loopback interface
• [ ] Packet statistics

Timers:

• [x] HPET support
• [ ] Clocksource abstraction
• [ ] TSC counter support
• [x] add performance.now() https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Performance.now()
• [x] Better APIC timer calibration (using HPET for example)
• [ ] KVM clock timer using MSR ( http://lwn.net/Articles/389375/ )
• [x] console.time()
• [ ] Kernel benchmarks

Network tools:

• [ ] HTTP protocol
• [ ] Web server
• [ ] Benchmark DNS server under high load

Build system:

• [x] Update Dockerfile script gcc version

Threading:

• [ ] Add native threads support (for v8 worker GC sweeper threads)
• [x] Idle thread should call asm('hlt')
• [x] Fix CPU usage on KVM
• [ ] CFS scheduler

Tests:

• [ ] Add test framework

[iefserge]

Needs to be updated.

[austinfrey]

How many of these to-dos are still relevant?

[piranna]

Native threads is one of them...