Re: Xen 4.7 Development Update

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>]

On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 10:30:53PM +0800, Meng Xu wrote:
> Hi Wei,
> 
> On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 6:15 PM, Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com> wrote:
> > This email only tracks big items for xen.git tree. Please reply for items you
> > woulk like to see in 4.7 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 4.7 timeline are as followed:
> >
> > * Last posting date: March 18, 2016
> > * Hard code freeze: April 1, 2016
> > * RC1: TBD
> > * Release: June 3, 2016
> >
> > Note that we don't have freeze exception scheme anymore. All patches
> > that wish to go into 4.7 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.
> >
> > = Projects =
> >
> > == Hypervisor ==
> >
> > *  Use Kconfig to configure hypervisor components
> >   -  Doug Goldstein
> >
> > === x86 ===
> 
> Tianyang and I are working on improving the RTDS scheduler.
> Could you add the following to the Xen 4.7 development update?
> 
> * Convert RTDS from time to event driven model
>    - Tianyang Chen
>    - Meng Xu
> 

You placed this under x86 section, but I suspect it should be under
"Hypervisor" section (i.e. it's generic) ?

> Tianyang is cc.ed and his email is tiche@seas.upenn.edu
> My email is mengxu@cis.upenn.edu
> 
> Thank you very much! :-)
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Meng
> 
> 
> -----------
> Meng Xu
> PhD Student in Computer and Information Science
> University of Pennsylvania
> http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~mengxu/