Re: Requesting for freeze exception for RMRR

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>]

On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 11:26:30PM +0800, Chen, Tiejun wrote:
> >The PCI allocation code is in a state, but it was in a similarly bad
> >state before.  I agree with Jan's point of the risk that these new
> >changes cause a regression in booting guests, although we can mitigate
> >that somewhat by testing.
> >
> >I feel at this point that we shouldn't block the RMRR bugfix on also
> >fixing the PCI allocation algorithm (which was a pre-existing issue).
> >
> >Therefore, I recommend that v9 gets respun to v10 to address the current
> >comments, and accepted.  Afterwards, the PCI allocation algorithm gets
> >worked on as a bugfix activity, to pro actively cater for the risk of
> >regression.
> 
> If you have any good solution to fix the PCI allocation algorithm
> completely, things couldn't be better :)
> 

I think Andrew means you (or someone else) improves that algorithm
later. No need to provide a perfect solution next week.

> Thanks
> Tiejun