From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Subject: Re: Xen 4.6 Development Update (two months reminder) Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 14:05:08 -0400 Message-ID: <20150313180508.GE19306@l.oracle.com> References: <55018C770200007800068F44@mail.emea.novell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta5.messagelabs.com ([195.245.231.135]) by lists.xen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1YWTxU-0005yK-RZ for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Fri, 13 Mar 2015 18:05:16 +0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <55018C770200007800068F44@mail.emea.novell.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: Jan Beulich Cc: elena.ufimtseva@oracle.com, artem.mygaiev@globallogic.com, quan.xu@intel.com, ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com, oleksandr.dmytryshyn@globallogic.com, chegger@amazon.de, Chun Yan Liu , edmund.h.white@intel.com, fabio.fantoni@m2r.biz, chao.p.peng@linux.intel.com, edgar.iglesias@gmail.com, zhigang.x.wang@oracle.com, parth.dixit@linaro.org, dgolomb@seas.upenn.edu, manishjaggi.oss@gmail.com, kai.huang@linux.intel.com, tamas.lengyel@zentific.com, Paul.Skentzos@dornerworks.com, jtweaver@hawaii.edu, vijay.kilari@gmail.com, oleksandr.tyshchenko@globallogic.com, guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com, Vijaya.Kumar@caviumnetworks.com, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, josh.whitehead@dornerworks.com, anthony.perard@citrix.com, xumengpanda@gmail.com, eshelton@pobox.com, olaf@aepfle.de, ian.campbell@citrix.com, wency@cn.fujitsu.com, julien.grall@linaro.org, robert.vanvossen@dornerworks.c List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 11:54:15AM +0000, Jan Beulich wrote: > >>> On 12.03.15 at 11:21, wrote: > > == Linux == > > Wouldn't it make sense to move external projects down, and have > our core pieces (hypervisor, tool stack, maybe qemu) be near the > top? > > > * Convert tasklet to per-cpu tasklets (fair) > > RFC posted > > - Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk > > Is this still a valid item? I think we went another route, albeit that > work is still incomplete iirc. Konrad? Right. I want to finish up the another route before I go back to this. I think it is still valid - as it can help with other tasklet uses. However I would need to do instrumentation/perf testing before I post them. > > > * Further tmem cleanups/fixes (16TB etc) (fair) > > - Bob Liu > > As we can now support more than 16Tb, I don't think this number > should be mentioned anymore. > > > * amd_ucode cleanups, verify patch size(enhancement) (mostly in master > > except one patch) > > Which one? > > > * Feature masking MSR support (enhancement) (in master) > > What is this about? Or what status does "in master" actually > refer to? That they are done. In 'master' branch.