From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Attilio Rao Subject: Re: Xen 4.3 release planning proposal Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 15:36:58 +0100 Message-ID: <50339D0A.2070909@citrix.com> References: <5033BAA00200007800096BB0@nat28.tlf.novell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <5033BAA00200007800096BB0@nat28.tlf.novell.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: Jan Beulich Cc: George Dunlap , "xen-devel@lists.xen.org" List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 21/08/12 15:43, Jan Beulich wrote: >>>> On 20.08.12 at 18:46, George Dunlap wrote: >>>> >> So I propose that we move to a time-based release schedule. Rather >> than aiming for a release date, I propose that we aim to do a "feature >> freeze" six months after the 4.2 release -- that would be around March >> 1, 2013. That way we'll probably end up releasing in 9 months' time, >> around June 2013. This is one of the things we can discuss at the Dev >> Meeting before the Xen Summit next week. If you have other opinions, >> please let us know. >> > That would make for a scheduled 3 month feature freeze. I don't > recall for how long we've been in feature freeze for 4.2 now, but > from my perspective this is already definitely too long. Over that > time I accumulated around 50 patches (not counting the bug fixes > that I keep posting), and I'm sure it was never that bad during > earlier feature freeze periods. > > >> * Event channel scalability >> owner: attilio@citrix >> Increase limit on event channels (currently 1024 for 32-bit guests, >> 4096 for 64-bit guests) >> > This one I have on my todo list as well. > > Do you mean that you already have a patch for that? I'm starting making a complete plan for it. I discussed with Ian Campbell some aspects and I plan to send a detailed e-mail in the next few days. Attilio