From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wei Liu Subject: Re: Xen 4.7 Development Update Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 14:34:14 +0000 Message-ID: <20160105143414.GA23818@citrix.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta14.messagelabs.com ([193.109.254.103]) by lists.xen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1aGSgk-0000V5-Rh for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2016 14:34:19 +0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Meng Xu Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org" , Wei Liu List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 10:30:53PM +0800, Meng Xu wrote: > Hi Wei, > > On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 6:15 PM, Wei Liu wrote: > > This email only tracks big items for xen.git tree. Please reply for items you > > woulk like to see in 4.7 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 twice a > > year. The upcoming 4.7 timeline are as followed: > > > > * Last posting date: March 18, 2016 > > * Hard code freeze: April 1, 2016 > > * RC1: TBD > > * Release: June 3, 2016 > > > > Note that we don't have freeze exception scheme anymore. All patches > > that wish to go into 4.7 must be posted no later than the last posting > > date. All patches posted after that date will be automatically queued > > into next release. > > > > RCs will be arranged immediately after freeze. > > > > = Projects = > > > > == Hypervisor == > > > > * Use Kconfig to configure hypervisor components > > - Doug Goldstein > > > > === x86 === > > Tianyang and I are working on improving the RTDS scheduler. > Could you add the following to the Xen 4.7 development update? > > * Convert RTDS from time to event driven model > - Tianyang Chen > - Meng Xu > You placed this under x86 section, but I suspect it should be under "Hypervisor" section (i.e. it's generic) ? > Tianyang is cc.ed and his email is tiche@seas.upenn.edu > My email is mengxu@cis.upenn.edu > > Thank you very much! :-) > > Best regards, > > Meng > > > ----------- > Meng Xu > PhD Student in Computer and Information Science > University of Pennsylvania > http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~mengxu/