RE: [PATCH v19 for-4.14 00/13] VM forking

From: Paul Durrant <xadimgnik@gmail.com>
To: "'Tamas K Lengyel'" <tamas@tklengyel.com>,
	"'George Dunlap'" <George.Dunlap@citrix.com>
Cc: 'Julien Grall' <julien@xen.org>,
	'Kevin Tian' <kevin.tian@intel.com>,
	'Stefano Stabellini' <sstabellini@kernel.org>,
	'Tamas K Lengyel' <tamas.lengyel@intel.com>,
	'Jan Beulich' <jbeulich@suse.com>, 'Wei Liu' <wl@xen.org>,
	'Andrew Cooper' <Andrew.Cooper3@citrix.com>,
	'Jun Nakajima' <jun.nakajima@intel.com>,
	'Ian Jackson' <Ian.Jackson@citrix.com>,
	'Anthony Perard' <anthony.perard@citrix.com>,
	'xen-devel' <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>,
	'Roger Pau Monne' <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v19 for-4.14 00/13] VM forking
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2020 08:37:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <002401d638b0$a5460f80$efd22e80$@xen.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABfawh=YHA9Lxbto5Qgf_wkSFAR+JxCdWB99iAhCmBgwSwvmVg@mail.gmail.com>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tamas K Lengyel <tamas@tklengyel.com>
> Sent: 01 June 2020 19:38
> To: George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@citrix.com>
> Cc: paul@xen.org; Tamas K Lengyel <tamas.lengyel@intel.com>; xen-devel <xen-
> devel@lists.xenproject.org>; Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>; Stefano Stabellini
> <sstabellini@kernel.org>; Jun Nakajima <jun.nakajima@intel.com>; Wei Liu <wl@xen.org>; Andrew Cooper
> <Andrew.Cooper3@citrix.com>; Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@citrix.com>; Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>;
> Anthony Perard <anthony.perard@citrix.com>; Julien Grall <julien@xen.org>; Roger Pau Monne
> <roger.pau@citrix.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v19 for-4.14 00/13] VM forking
> 
> On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 11:11 AM George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@citrix.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > On Jun 1, 2020, at 4:07 PM, Paul Durrant <xadimgnik@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> -----Original Message-----
> > >> From: Xen-devel <xen-devel-bounces@lists.xenproject.org> On Behalf Of Tamas K Lengyel
> > >> Sent: 01 June 2020 14:22
> > >> To: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
> > >> Cc: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>; Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>; Tamas K
> Lengyel
> > >> <tamas.lengyel@intel.com>; Jun Nakajima <jun.nakajima@intel.com>; Wei Liu <wl@xen.org>; Andrew
> Cooper
> > >> <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>; Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>; George Dunlap
> > >> <george.dunlap@citrix.com>; Tamas K Lengyel <tamas@tklengyel.com>; Jan Beulich
> <jbeulich@suse.com>;
> > >> Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>; Julien Grall <julien@xen.org>; Roger Pau Monné
> > >> <roger.pau@citrix.com>
> > >> Subject: [PATCH v19 for-4.14 00/13] VM forking
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > >  This series looks to be largely un-acked so, since we are now past the freeze date, I don't
> really think it can go into 4.14. Is there a particular reason that you think it should be considered?
> >
> > Tamas’ project itself mainly uses libxc and below, as I understand; and so getting patches 1 and 2
> in would be an important milestone; both have had R-b’s before the feature freeze.  Arguably patches 1
> and 2 are a bug fix.  Patch 1 is missing VMX (or a general x86).
> 
> Correct. The first two patches going in would decide whether we will
> be able to use the 4.14 release without having to carry out-of-tree
> patches. Although as things stand at the moment regarding all the bugs
> being discovered in 4.13 and 4.14 we will likely still have to
> backport all of these patches to 4.12 by hand.

That sounds like a reasonable justification.

Maintainers/committers, can we please get those patches in a.s.a.p.?

  Paul