From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dario Faggioli Subject: Re: Stop testing SEDF almost at all (at least until Xen 4.2) [was: Re: [PATCH v2] OSSTest: stop testing SEDF, start testing RTDS] Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 15:31:30 +0200 Message-ID: <1435584690.25170.243.camel@citrix.com> References: <1435316331.25170.191.camel@citrix.com> <21901.16190.81742.872136@mariner.uk.xensource.com> <1435326209.25170.220.camel@citrix.com> <21901.28322.907293.881746@mariner.uk.xensource.com> <55912705.6070202@eu.citrix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============4354329068329681597==" Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta5.messagelabs.com ([195.245.231.135]) by lists.xen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Z9Z9u-0000Vg-Nl for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Mon, 29 Jun 2015 13:31:38 +0000 In-Reply-To: <55912705.6070202@eu.citrix.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: George Dunlap Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org" , Meng Xu , Ian Jackson , Ian Campbell , Wei Liu List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org --===============4354329068329681597== Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-BuPXV6wokqtkPNQCzPP/" --=-BuPXV6wokqtkPNQCzPP/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 RT= DS]"): > >> 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, [...] > >=20 > > 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'.) > >=20 > > As to the substance, I would like to take advice from the relevant HV > > maintainers about this change. >=20 > 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. >=20 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 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 --=20 <> (Raistlin Majere) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Dario Faggioli, Ph.D, http://about.me/dario.faggioli Senior Software Engineer, Citrix Systems R&D Ltd., Cambridge (UK) --=-BuPXV6wokqtkPNQCzPP/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEABECAAYFAlWRSLIACgkQk4XaBE3IOsTMyACfbgV2hJzwI/vJKe62nh4WfkeR nYIAnisDoGIWEUnUfhmZatySL1VO7d29 =K4p6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-BuPXV6wokqtkPNQCzPP/-- --===============4354329068329681597== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel --===============4354329068329681597==--