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 Mon, 2015-06-29 at 12:07 +0100, George Dunlap wrote:
> On 06/26/2015 04:24 PM, 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.
> > 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'.)
> > 
> > As to the substance, I would like to take advice from the relevant HV
> > maintainers about this change.
> 
> I agree with Dario that there's no point in testing it, and with you
> that we might as well rip the code out of osstest.
> 
Ok then, even better. Another patch to OSSTest to that effect will come
shortly.

> > With my tools maintainer hat on, we should consider removing the
> > sedf-specific code from libxl.
> 
> With the obvious caveat that old code with SEDF macros and such still
> needs to compile but return a runtime error if people try to use it.
> 
Yep, that's, in fact, what I think I've done in my 'get rid of SEDF'
series, that I sent Friday afternoon.

Thanks and Regards,
Dario

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