From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: George Dunlap Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 00/15] Alternate p2m: support multiple copies of host p2m Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 20:11:35 +0100 Message-ID: <55B13C67.7050805@citrix.com> References: <1437606081-6964-1-git-send-email-edmund.h.white@intel.com> <20150723171241.GG12377@zion.uk.xensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20150723171241.GG12377@zion.uk.xensource.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: Wei Liu , Ed White Cc: Ravi Sahita , Jun Nakajima , George Dunlap , Ian Jackson , Tim Deegan , xen-devel@lists.xen.org, Jan Beulich , Andrew Cooper , tlengyel@novetta.com, Daniel De Graaf List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 07/23/2015 06:12 PM, Wei Liu wrote: > Hi all > > As I understand it most pending issues of this series are minor and the > final day for committing is tomorrow. Checking this series in as-is is > going to create some technical debt that either maintainers or Intel > developers need to pay back in the future (and Intel has signed up for > that, thank you). The clock is ticking but there is still disagreement, > so I would like to share some of my thoughts from a strategic point of > view. > > I think this feature is important and gives us strategic advantages. I'm > not aware of other open source hypervisors that support such feature. It > is essential to VM introspection. It will help Xen project catch up in > NFV market. The feature is interesting in its own right I would imagine > power users / developers can do many interesting things with it. > > From my point of view the benefits out-weight technical debt. I think this makes sense. I've just looked through the series as a whole, and although there are lots of things I would like to change, I'm convinced that as a whole it will work as advertised; and furthermore, as Wei said, that it is strategically important to get in. So with that in mind: mm-code: Acked-by: George Dunlap