Re: dom0 features in Linus tree

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 11:41:14AM +0100, Rafal Wojtczuk wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have just noticed that vanilla linux-2.6.38-rc6 does not have pciback, nor
> netback. Does anyone know whether these two will be included in final 2.6.38?

I was thinking 2.6.39, but then I was also wondering whether some of this
functionality it provides can be exposed via QEMU PCI API and KVM's interrupt
handler code (similar to pciback, except that the flow is via ioctl/eventfs
to/from QEMU for PCI devices interrupts). It would require delicate surgery
in multiple code bases but could make it easier in the long-term.

Still pondering about it, but in the meantime there is a branch that works
quite nicely

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen.git devel/next-2.6.38

and has netback+pciback and is quite stable on my boxes.


> 
> More general question - can anyone venture an estimate on when all remaining dom0
> features will be merged into Linus tree ?

To give ourselves a lot of breathing room for fixing bugs, stabilizing, etc, testing,
how about 2.6.42?

The more I see the number 42 the better that answer is :-)