From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: George Dunlap Subject: Re: Xen 4.3 development update Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 10:36:37 +0100 Message-ID: <5062CCA5.8010903@eu.citrix.com> References: <505ADBCF020000780009C7BE@nat28.tlf.novell.com> <20120921031759.GA3953@u002268147cd4502c336d.ant.amazon.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20120921031759.GA3953@u002268147cd4502c336d.ant.amazon.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: Matt Wilson Cc: Thanos Makatos , Jan Beulich , "xen-devel@lists.xen.org" List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 21/09/12 04:18, Matt Wilson wrote: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 08:03:11AM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote: >>> On 19.09.12 at 18:58, George Dunlap wrote: >>> * Persistent grants >>> owner: @citrix >>> status: ? >> Isn't that a guest side only thing (i.e. not really to be tracked >> here)? Or does that mean migrating active grants? > I'd assume that the device would be renegotiated during migration, and > that new grants would be established during the re-connect sequence. > > One question I have is how persistent grants intersect with > blktap3. Will a persistent grant-capable blktap3 implementation be in > scope for 4.3? Thanos is working on blktap3 -- Thanos, can you comment? > >>> * Multi-page blk rings >>> - blkback in kernel (konrad@oracle, ?@intel) >> This part certainly is a guest side only thing (apart from the >> interface definition living in the our tree). > Same question here regarding blktap3. And here. -George