Re: Xen 4.11 Development Update

[Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@citrix.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Juergen Gross [mailto:jgross@suse.com]
> Sent: 05 January 2018 09:17
> To: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
> Cc: jgross@suse.com
> Subject: Xen 4.11 Development Update
> 
> This email only tracks big items for xen.git tree. Please reply for items you
> would like to see in 4.11 so that people have an idea what is going on and
> prioritise accordingly.
> 
> You're welcome to provide description and use cases of the feature you're
> working on.
> 
> = Timeline =
> 
> We now adopt a fixed cut-off date scheme. We will release twice a
> year. The upcoming 4.11 timeline are as followed:
> 
> * Last posting date: March 16th, 2018
> * Hard code freeze: March 30th, 2018
> * RC1: TBD
> * Release: June 1st, 2018
> 
> Note that we don't have freeze exception scheme anymore. All patches
> that wish to go into 4.11 must be posted no later than the last posting
> date. All patches posted after that date will be automatically queued
> into next release.
> 
> RCs will be arranged immediately after freeze.
> 
> We recently introduced a jira instance to track all the tasks (not only big)
> for the project. See: https://xenproject.atlassian.net/projects/XEN/issues.
> 
> Most of the tasks tracked by this e-mail also have a corresponding jira task
> referred by XEN-N.
> 
> I have started to include the version number of series associated to each
> feature. Can each owner send an update on the version number if the series
> was posted upstream?
> 
> = Projects =
> 
> == Hypervisor ==
> 
> *  Per-cpu tasklet
>   -  XEN-28
>   -  Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
> 
> === x86 ===
> 
> *  Enable Memory Bandwidth Allocation in Xen (v10)
>   -  XEN-48
>   -  Yi Sun
> 
> *  guest resource mapping (v17)
>   -  Paul Durrant
> 

Could you also add PV-IOMMU here? I do have some preliminary patches and have successfully tested a dom0 with a 1:1 GFN:BFN mapping set up using the new hypercalls, so I expect to post something in time for 4.11.

Thanks,

  Paul

> *  vNVDIMM support for HVM guest (RFC v4)
>   -  XEN-45
>   -  Haozhong Zhang
> 
> *  SMMUv3 driver (RFC v4)
>   -  Sameer Goel
> 
> == Grub2 ==
> 
> *  Support PVH guest boot (v1)
>   -  Juergen Gross
> 
> 

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