Re: Xen 4.7 Development Update

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 11:17:05AM +0000, Wei Liu wrote:
> NOTE: We are one month away from freeze. Features that wish to be in 4.7 must
> be posted to xen-devel by March 18.
> 
> 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

Ugh.
> * 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 == 
> 
> *  Convert RTDS from time to event-driven model
>   -  Meng Xu
>   -  Tianyang Chen
> 
> === x86 === 
> 
> *  Improve ioreq server performance
>   -  Yu Zhang
>   -  Paul Durrant
> 
> *  xsave/xrtors support
>   -  Shuai Ruan
> 
> *  CPUID handling improvement
>   -  Andrew Cooper
> 
> *  VMWare tools support
>   -  Don Slutz
> 
> *  xSplice, hypervisor hot-patching
>   -  Konrad Wilk
>   -  Ross Lagerwall

Moving at high speed. Should have an v4 within this week which will have all
the reviewes addressed. 

> *  Basic xSplice tooling (see hypervisor item)
>   -  Konrad Wilk

Ditto. That tool is going to be part of the 30+ patchset.

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