Re: Xen 4.5 development update

From: Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@citrix.com>
To: konrad.wilk@oracle.com
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	Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com, dongxiao.xu@intel.com,
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	boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Subject: Re: Xen 4.5 development update
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 08:51:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1405061506.29306.285.camel@Solace> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140701164347.61662A7843@laptop.dumpdata.com>

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On mar, 2014-07-01 at 12:43 -0400, konrad.wilk@oracle.com wrote:

> 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

> = Open =

> == x86 == 
> 

> *  HT enabled, virtualization overhead is high (Xen 4.4) (none)
>    kernbench demonstrated it
>    looking and tracing it
>   -  Dario Faggioli
>
Right. Anyway, I shall say more about this in a new thread.

> *  Soft affinity for vcpus (was NUMA affinity for vcpus) (good)
>    v11 posted
>   -  Dario Faggioli
> 
Indeed. v12 coming today.

> *  Repurpose SEDF Scheduler for Real-time (ok)
>    RFC patch posted (v1)
>   -  Joshua Whitehead, Robert VanVossen
>
TBF, Patches are still RFC.

Also, either somehow related to this, or, if you want as a new separate
item (something like 'New Real-Time Scheduling'):

 Upstreaming bits of RT-Xen by Meng Xu, Sisu Xi
 RFC posted (v1)

Given the RFC status, I'd say this is fair, according to legend above.

Regards,
Dario
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