Re: Stop testing SEDF almost at all (at least until Xen 4.2) [was: Re: [PATCH v2] OSSTest: stop testing SEDF, start testing RTDS]

[Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@citrix.com>]

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On Fri, 2015-06-26 at 16:24 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Dario Faggioli writes ("Stop testing SEDF almost at all (at least until Xen 4.2) [was: Re: [PATCH v2] OSSTest: stop testing SEDF, start testing RTDS]"):
> > However, I honestly think that testing SEDF for earlier versions than
> > xen-unstable (at least until 4.2) is also just a waste of test
> > resources.
> ...
> > Therefore, I'd argue for the attached patch, [...]
> 
> With my osstest maintainer hat on the aim of this patch is fine by me.
>
Great! :-)

> But it seems that sedf is not coming back, so if we are going to do
> this to osstest we should probably rip the code out.  So I would
> welcome a followup which got rid of all the leftover traces in
> make-flight and allow.all.  (`git-grep -i sedf'.)
> 
Ok, I'm fine with this. Looking at make-flight, we seem to want to be
able to run tests on Xen 3.*, 4.0, 4.1. As I said in my email, I can't
speak for these. I honestly think that SEDF was already broken, so I
personally would be more than glad to send a patch that gets rid of it
all the way, but that does not count much, I guess, as I wasn't here!

As soon as you (and others) will let me know what's best, I'll do it.

> As to the substance, I would like to take advice from the relevant HV
> maintainers about this change.
> 
Sure.

> With my tools maintainer hat on, we should consider removing the
> sedf-specific code from libxl.
> 
Patch coming. I'm not removing the interfaces and the symbols, to allow
backword build-time compatibility to be retained, but yes, I'm removing
it from everywhere, and "neutralizing it" (just in case!) in libxl...
You shall see! :-P

Thanks and Regards,
Dario

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Senior Software Engineer, Citrix Systems R&D Ltd., Cambridge (UK)

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