From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
To: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>, Chao Peng <chao.p.peng@linux.intel.com>
Cc: dario.faggioli@citrix.com, stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com,
Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com, xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 for Xen 4.6 0/6] Several PSR fixes in libxl
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 11:30:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1443522653.16718.37.camel@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150929093326.GV13821@zion.uk.xensource.com>
On Tue, 2015-09-29 at 10:33 +0100, Wei Liu wrote:
> Now the reasoning bits. Yes, I'm arguing with myself, :-)
>
> We can of course fix it post-4.6, but the released APIs need to be
> maintained forever (even if it is in fact broken). That would definitely
> involve lots of compatibility cruft if we fix it post 4.6.
>
> This patch series is simple enough to reason about and has received
> adequate review from expert in the field, so I have hight confidence in
> it being correct.
>
> I think the benefit of accepting it out-weights the downside.
Applied all 6 to staging and staging-4.6, with the one tweak discussed in
reply to #5.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-29 10:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-29 7:49 [PATCH v2 for Xen 4.6 0/6] Several PSR fixes in libxl Chao Peng
2015-09-29 7:49 ` [PATCH v2 for Xen 4.6 1/6] tools/libxl: introduce libxl_get_online_socketmap Chao Peng
2015-09-29 9:10 ` Dario Faggioli
2015-09-29 9:22 ` Wei Liu
2015-09-29 7:49 ` [PATCH v2 for Xen 4.6 2/6] tools/libxl: fix socket display error for CMT Chao Peng
2015-09-29 9:06 ` Dario Faggioli
2015-09-29 7:49 ` [PATCH v2 for Xen 4.6 3/6] tools/libxl: return socket id from libxl_psr_cat_get_l3_info Chao Peng
2015-09-29 9:09 ` Dario Faggioli
2015-09-29 9:22 ` Wei Liu
2015-09-29 7:49 ` [PATCH v2 for Xen 4.6 4/6] tools/libxl: fix range check in main_psr_cat_cbm_set Chao Peng
2015-09-29 7:49 ` [PATCH v2 for Xen 4.6 5/6] docs: make xl-psr.markdown more precise Chao Peng
2015-09-29 9:27 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-09-29 9:55 ` Ian Campbell
2015-09-30 1:34 ` Chao Peng
2015-09-30 8:57 ` Ian Campbell
2015-09-30 9:40 ` Chao Peng
2015-09-29 7:49 ` [PATCH v2 for Xen 4.6 6/6] docs/man: resort sections Chao Peng
2015-09-29 8:53 ` Dario Faggioli
2015-09-29 9:02 ` Wei Liu
2015-09-29 9:33 ` [PATCH v2 for Xen 4.6 0/6] Several PSR fixes in libxl Wei Liu
2015-09-29 10:30 ` Ian Campbell [this message]
2015-09-30 1:36 ` Chao Peng
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