From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Campbell Subject: Re: Xen 4.5 development update (September update). Feature freeze slip by two weeks. Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2014 14:42:05 +0100 Message-ID: <1412775725.24894.13.camel@citrix.com> References: <20140910170515.4DD58DEAD8@laptop.dumpdata.com> <5423DF96.70304@eu.citrix.com> <20140925212631.GA27218@laptop.dumpdata.com> <20141007145018.GK2604@laptop.dumpdata.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta5.messagelabs.com ([195.245.231.135]) by lists.xen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1XbrVr-0003oL-Do for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Wed, 08 Oct 2014 13:42:43 +0000 In-Reply-To: <20141007145018.GK2604@laptop.dumpdata.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: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Cc: "artem.mygaiev@globallogic.com" , "msw@amazon.com" , "gross@suse.com" , "dongxiao.xu@intel.com" , Stefano Stabellini , "mengxu@cis.upenn.edu" , "chao.p.peng@linux.intel.com" , "zhigang.x.wang@oracle.com" , "parth.dixit@linaro.org" , "Paul.Skentzos@dornerworks.com" , "wency@cn.fujitsu.com" , "rcojocaru@bitdefender.com" , "guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com" , "daniel.kiper@oracle.com" , "josh.whitehead@dornerworks.com" , Zoltan Kiss , "avanzini.arianna@gmail.com" List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Tue, 2014-10-07 at 10:50 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 12:48:27PM +0000, Dave Scott wrote: > > Hi Konrad, > > > > On 25 Sep 2014, at 22:26, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 10:25:42AM +0100, George Dunlap wrote: > > >> On 09/25/2014 10:22 AM, Dave Scott wrote: > > >>> Hi Konrad, > > >>> > > >>> On 10 Sep 2014, at 18:05, wrote: > > >>> > > >>>> * extend the xenstore ring with a 'closing' signal (fair) [...] > > FWIW I think this is still worth taking for 4.5 because > > > > 1. it fixes a real bug (HVM VMs occasionally failing to boot because of bad hvmloader/xenstored interaction) > > > > 2. the oxenstored changes are quite unobtrusive: the flag is sampled at the bottom, an exception bubbles all the way (almost) to the top and is handled there. If something were to go wrong, that exception would be caught at the main loop allowing the process to continue. > > > > What do you think? > > I concur. > > Release-Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Applied this one.