Re: Xen 4.3 development update, and stock-taking

[George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>]

On 17/01/13 10:00, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
> On 16/01/13 18:55, George Dunlap wrote:
>> * Persistent grants for blk (external)
>>    owner: roger.pau@citrix
>>    status: Initial implementation posted
>>    prognosis: ?
> Done, Linux implementation scheduled for 3.8, and Qemu side is also done
> and being upstreamed right now.

OK, so I'll mark the Linux component as "done", and the qemu component 
as "Good".

>> * Persistent grants for net
>>    owner: annie.li@citrix
>>    status: Initial implementation posted
>>    prognosis: ?
>>
>> * Multi-page blk rings (external)
>>   - blkback in kernel (konrad@oracle, ?@intel)
>>   - qemu blkback
>>    status: Not started.
>>    prognosis: UNKNOWN
> I will be taking on this project, following Intel, FreeBSD and Konrad
> suggestions. Since I'm just starting now, I will mark it as "Fair".

OK, thanks for the info.  Out of curiosity, if someone were to consider 
this a blocker, would having someone else working on it speed things up, 
do you think?  Or is it development probably "non-parallelizable"? :-)

>> * openvswitch toostack integration
>>    owner: roger@citrix
>>    prognosis: ?
>>    status: Sample script posted by Bastian ("[RFC] openvswitch support
>> script")
> I have no experience with Open vSwitch, so if some with more experience
> wants to take on this I would appreciate it. It should just be a matter
> of adding a hotplug script.

OK -- well shall I take your name off and call this "poor"?  That would 
put it on the list of "at-risk" features for which we would ask for 
volunteers.

>> * Rationalized backend scripts (incl. driver domains)
>>    owner: roger@citrix
>>    status: patches submitted
>>    prognosis: Good
> The first part of this effort, that includes a new hotplug interface for
> libxl has been submitted for review. The protocol between the control
> and the driver domains still needs to be designed/revised based on Ian
> Jackson proposal.

OK -- so, should I downgrade this to "Fair"?

Thanks for the updates,

  -George