From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Subject: Re: Discussion on whether to continue with the patches for Xen 4.5 Re: [v6][PATCH 2/2] xen:vtd: missing RMRR mapping while share EPT Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 12:40:40 -0400 Message-ID: <20140929164040.GA1457@laptop.dumpdata.com> References: <5420D357.1060202@intel.com> <5422A08C020000780003814F@mail.emea.novell.com> <5423E98E0200007800038C27@mail.emea.novell.com> <20140925141215.GC20089@laptop.dumpdata.com> <54244D7402000078000390F2@mail.emea.novell.com> <20140926135529.GG30097@laptop.dumpdata.com> <20140929161405.GB32528@laptop.dumpdata.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140929161405.GB32528@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: "Zhang, Yang Z" Cc: "Chen, Tiejun" , "Tian, Kevin" , "paul.durrant@citrix.com" , Jan Beulich , "xen-devel@lists.xen.org" List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 12:14:05PM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > > Qemu-traditional + Xen 4.5 + RMRR patchset will work. > > > > > all of those patches be tested/reviewed/posted by Oct 13th? > > > > > > As in, is this patchset the last piece of the puzzle? > > > > > > And by tested I mean with the passthrough and without, and > > > with various size guests doing migrations (without devices) > > > multiple times (say ten) - and 32 or 64 bit. The QA matrix > > > means at least 8 variations (32/64 - with PCIe passthrough, > > > and without, 2GB or 8GB or 12GB) by my reckoning. > > > > I am not sure whether we can catch Oct 13th. Does this means those patch will not be accepted by you if we cannot catch Oct 13th? > > Before today I would have said no - as I think the rework of these > patches, the addition of a new hypervisor, review, etc in four days And my math is off. The national holiday is from Oct 1st->7th, so that means: Sep 29th->30th, 8th->10th, and the 13th (instead of 15th to give it an day to run through oss-test and then potentially fixing it on the next day). That is 5 days. > would be highly unlikely - and that meant you would be so busy > working towards a deadline and very likely missing it. > > But we are slipping the schedule due to another issue so the RC0 will > move from October 15th to October 25th. > > That means you will have some breathing room to work this out. > > So lets see those patches and then evaluate them case-by-case basis. > Naturally before even I can give an exception on them - they have > to be OK with the maintainers. > > And tested quite extensively. > > > > > > > > Sorry for being so aggressive about the testing part but I am > > > very adverse to regressions - as they have bit me in the past > > > and left me with an strong aversion to them. > > > > > > Best regards, > > Yang > > > >