From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=34013 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OqSKH-0000qS-Ub for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:00:51 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OqSK1-0007cW-A0 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:00:35 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:23786) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OqSK1-0007bb-3W for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:00:25 -0400 Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:00:16 -0700 From: Chris Wright Message-ID: <20100831150016.GA5784@x200.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Subject: [Qemu-devel] KVM call minutes for August 31 List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: kvm@vger.kernel.org Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org QMP/QPI - declare what's in 0.13 supported - means reasonable effort to avoid breaking something (deprecation is possible) - things that are left, shallow patch or human monitor conversion - how to move forward? - need to improve interfaces (no argument there) - internal vs. external interfaces - QMP == external, stable, extensible, discoverable, fwd/back compat - internal == C, data structures, changeable, non-stable - redefine internal interfaces and work up? - this addresses concern that most changes are in monitor.c - and addresses the concern that we aren't defining proper extensible top level interfaces - work top down from external? - map to internal details...fix internals when external is hard/impossible based on internals - need to focus on QMP command addition in the face of internal details - no disagreement there - decouple monitor and QMP - sane interfaces (proposal for migration from Anthony) - error issues... 0.13 schedule - rc1 tagged locally and under test, once testing completes, upload, then one week to fix any outstanding issues - will push tag later today and upload, announce once propagates (24hrs-ish) qemu-kvm integration - not getting a lot of cycles - nothing major that anthony won't pull - extboot still - performance - i/o threading model (merge both and fix in-tree) - in-kernel apic - device assignement (vfio against qemu tree) - disable ia64 - avi will look at doing the pull request