Re: Xen 4.5 development update (July update)

[Meng Xu <xumengpanda@gmail.com>]

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Hi Dario,


> >
> >         The "prognosis" is now the likelihood of completion in the 4.5
> >         timeframe.
> >         A bunch of items had moved to the completed phase which is
> >         fantastic.
> >
> >         none - nothing yet
> >         fair - still working on it, patches are prototypes or RFC
> >         ok   - patches posted, acting on review
> >         good - some last minute pieces
> >         done - all done, might have bugs
> >
> >
> >
> >         *  XenRT (Preemptive Global Earliest Deadline First) (fair)
> >            RFC patch posted (v2)
> >           -  Meng Xu
> >
>
> > Although it's a RFC patch, the XenRT can actually works well on the
> > machines we have. It currently has the preemptive global EDF
> > scheduler. The functionalities I'm currently working on is improving
> > its performance based on the review of the first version of patches.
> >
> If this is the case, I think you should drop the RFC tag/status.
>
> The idea is this: if you are asking the Xen dev community to provide
> some feedback on an idea/prototype implementation, then keep the RFC
> tag. If you are proposing something for inclusion in upstream Xen and,
> at least according to your own opinion, the code you are submitting is
> good enough to be included, then you need to drop the RFC tag.
>
> Then, of course, there will still be reviews, changes will be requested,
> new versions, etc., but it's important to mark the difference between
> these two phases, as said, by either retaining or dripping the tag.
>
> Basing on what you're saying (i.e., that you're working on performances
> optimizations), on how the last patch series looked and on the comments
> you got, I think it would be fine for you to send the next round of
> patches as proper v1, rather than "RFC v3", but that's, of course, up to
> you. :-)
>

​Thank you very much for your advice! I will drop the RFC then in the next
round of patches (this week).

Best,

Meng ​

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Meng Xu
PhD Student in Computer and Information Science
University of Pennsylvania

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