From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Subject: Re: Xen 4.5 Development Update (GA slip by a week) - reviewing experimental/preview tags Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 12:59:13 -0500 Message-ID: <20150106175913.GA27498@l.oracle.com> References: <20150105200832.49EFC6A059F@l.oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta14.messagelabs.com ([193.109.254.103]) by lists.xen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Y8YPc-0001MA-EF for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Tue, 06 Jan 2015 17:59:24 +0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Lars Kurth Cc: tim deegan , Keir Fraser , Ian Jackson , Ian Campbell , xen-devel List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 05:24:19PM +0000, Lars Kurth wrote: > (Reduced CC list) > Hi all, updating http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_Project_Release_Features there appear to be a few features where it may be worth to upgrade a feature for 4.5. The following ones spring to mind > * Credit 2 Scheduler : experimental to preview - actually this raises the question what the difference is > * Nested Virt - I did see a few tests being developed recently and have not seen anyone raise bugs. It is also a requirement for OpenStack > * OVMF/Tianocore : experimental to preview We did not change anything in Xen 4.5 in regards to that. Thought Xen 4.6 can now ingest the upstream version which has Xen PV drivers support. > > I am assuming the following ones remain unchanged? > * Memory Ballooning/Sharing - have not seen any extra tools support > * TMEM Yes. > > Regards > Lars > > On 5 Jan 2015, at 20:08, konrad.wilk@oracle.com wrote: > > > Xen 4.5-rc4 was out on Monday (Dec 15th). The GA > > General Release is on Jan 7th^H^H^14th! > > > > There are some outstanding patches on which we need to figure > > out whether we will commit them in or not. > > > > When we commit a patch in, the OSSTest takes a day or so to push it to 'master' > > - and if it fails during that time patches that are later in the sequence are > > not applied. Hence if everything works out great - we get the patches > > to show up next day - however if something breaks - we are stalled. > > > > Ian(s) has pointed to me that the OSSTest is sometimes on the fritz and that it > > might take more than one day to push patches through which means we won't > > make it by Wednesday. > > > > As such, moving it the release by a week to give us ample room to get through > > those changes. > > > > These are the patches that need to be investigated whether they should > > go in or not: > > > > VT-d: don't crash when PTE bits 52 and up are non-zero > > VT-d: extend XSA-59 workaround to XeonE5 v3 (Haswell) > > VT-d: make XSA-59 workaround fully cover XeonE5/E7 v2 > > x86/VPMU: Clear last_vcpu when destroying VPMU > > tools/hotplug: add wrapper to start xenstored > > tools/hotplug: remove EnvironmentFile from xen-qemu-dom0-disk-backend.service > > tools/hotplug: use XENCONSOLED_TRACE in xenconsoled.service > > tools/hotplug: use xencommons as EnvironmentFile in xenconsoled.service > > tools/hotplug: xendomains.service depends on network > > tools/hotplug: remove XENSTORED_ROOTDIR from xenstored.service > > tools/hotplug: remove SELinux options from var-lib-xenstored.mount > > tools/libxl: Use of init()/dispose() to avoid leaking libxl_dominfo.ss > > xen: arm: correct off-by-one error in consider_module > > > > > > = Timeline = > > > > Xen 4.5 is a 10 month release. The dates are: > > > > * Feature Freeze: 24th September 2014 > > * First RC: 24th October [Friday!] > > * RC2: Nov 11th > > * RC2 Test-day: Nov 13th > > * RC3: Dec 3rd. > > * RC3 Test-day: Dec 4th > > * RC4: Dec 15th > > * RC4 Test-day: Dec 17th > > > > <==== WE ARE HERE ===> > > > > Release Date: Jan 14th. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Xen-devel mailing list > > Xen-devel@lists.xen.org > > http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel >