Re: [PATCH] README, xen/Makefile: Update to Xen 4.5.0

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

On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 09:14:22PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 01:21:58PM -0500, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 06:06:23PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > > Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk writes ("[Xen-devel] [PATCH] README, xen/Makefile: Update to Xen 4.5.0"):
> > > > -The 4.3 release offers a number of improvements, including NUMA
> > > > -scheduling affinity, openvswitch integration, and defaulting to
> > > > -qemu-xen rather than qemu-traditional for non-stubdom guests.
> > > > -(qemu-xen is kept very close to the upstream project.)  We also have a
> > > > -number of updates to vTPM, and improvements to XSM and Flask to allow
> > > > -greater disaggregation.  Additionally, 4.3 contains a basic version of
> > > > -Xen for the new ARM server architecture, both 32- and 64-bit.  And as
> > > > -always, there are a number of performance, stability, and security
> > > > +The 4.5 release offers a number of improvements: including shedding
> > > 
> > > Should read
> > >   +The 4.5 release offers a number of improvements, including: shedding
> > > (note two punctuation changes) and the list items should all be
> > > separated with semicolons IMO.
> > 
> > 
> > Thank you for your update.
> > 
> > I've incorporated feedback from all folks I hope. Would this be satisfactory?
> >
> 
> Do we want to mention things like HVM guest direct kernel boot,
> or HVM guests MMIO hole resize support? 

"and support in QEMU for expanding the PCI hole." which is in the README

HVM guest direct kernel boot - I forgot about that!

> 
> 
> And I think there was optimizations to oxenstored to support up to 1000 VMs per host.. 

.. and that.

diff --git a/README b/README
index 4a9cac1..e2c9e83 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -43,8 +43,9 @@ guests; and lower interrupt latency.
 The toolstack has expanded to include support for: VM Generation ID (a
 Windows 2012 Server requirement); Remus initial support (for high
 availability) in libxl (since xend has been removed); libxenlight JSON
-support and persistent configuration support, and systemd support; and
-support in QEMU for expanding the PCI hole.
+support, HVM guest direct kernel boot, and persistent configuration
+support; systemd support; optimizations in oxenstored to support more
+than 1000+ VMs; and support in QEMU for expanding the PCI hole.
 
 Lastly, we have removed the Python toolstack (xend).