Re: Xen 4.12 Development Update

[Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>]

Sorry, this one is missing some updates. Will resend soon.


Juergen

On 28/11/2018 11:15, Juergen Gross wrote:
> This email only tracks big items for xen.git tree. Please reply for items you
> would like to see in 4.12 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 about every 8 months.
> The upcoming 4.12 timeline are as followed:
> 
> * Last posting date: December 14th, 2018
>   Last posting date for patches touching ARM code: December 1st, 2018
> * Hard code freeze: January 11th, 2019
>   Hard code freeze for patches touching ARM code: December 21st, 2018
> * RC1: TBD
> * Release: March 7th, 2019
> 
> !!! Last posting date for patches touching ARM code is only 2 days away !!!
> 
> Note that we don't have freeze exception scheme anymore. All patches
> that wish to go into 4.12 must be posted initially no later than the
> last posting date and finally no later than the hard code freeze. All
> patches posted after that date will be automatically queued into next
> release.
> 
> RCs will be arranged immediately after freeze.
> 
> We recently introduced a jira instance to track all the tasks (not only big)
> for the project. See: https://xenproject.atlassian.net/projects/XEN/issues.
> 
> Some of the tasks tracked by this e-mail also have a corresponding jira task
> referred by XEN-N.
> 
> I have started to include the version number of series associated to each
> feature. Can each owner send an update on the version number if the series
> was posted upstream?
> 
> = Projects =
> 
> == Hypervisor == 
> 
> *  Per-cpu tasklet
>   -  XEN-28
>   -  Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
> 
> *  Improvements to domain creation (v2)
>   -  Andrew Cooper
> 
> *  Argo (inter-VM communication)
>   -  Christopher Clark
> 
> *  Core aware scheduling (RFC v1)
>   -  Dario Faggioli
> 
> === x86 === 
> 
> *  hypervisor x86 instruction emulator additions for AVX512 (v5)
>   -  Jan Beulich
> 
> *  PV-IOMMU (v7)
>   -  Paul Durrant
> 
> *  HVM guest CPU topology support (RFC)
>   -  Chao Gao
> 
> *  Intel Processor Trace virtualization enabling (v1)
>   -  Luwei Kang
> 
> *  Linux stub domains (RFC v2)
>   -  Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
> 
> *  qemu deprivilege (v4)
>   -  George Dunlap
> 
> *  Improve late microcode loading (v4)
>   -  Chao Gao
> 
> *  dom0less (boot multiple domains from device tree) (v4)
>   -  Stefano Stabellini
> 
> == Grub2 == 
> 
> *  Support PVH guest boot (v5)
>   -  Juergen Gross
> 
> == Completed == 
> 
> *  guest resource mapping
>   -  Paul Durrant
> 
> *  PV-only hypervisor
>   -  Wei Liu
> 
> *  HVM-only hypervisor
>   -  Wei Liu
> 
> *  Make credit2 scheduler the default
>   -  George Dunlap
> 
> 
> Juergen Gross
> 
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