Re: Xen 4.6 Development Update (two months reminder)

[Fabio Fantoni <fabio.fantoni@m2r.biz>]

Il 12/03/2015 11:54, George Dunlap ha scritto:
> On 03/12/2015 10:21 AM, wei.liu2@citrix.com wrote:
>
>> *  Credit2: introduce per-vcpu hard and soft affinity (fair)
>>    -  Justin T. Weaver
> The most recent patches looked pretty good -- I'd be very surprised if
> these didn't make it in by July.  I'd change this to "good".
>
>> *  Default to credit2 (none)
>>     cpu pinning, numa affinity and cpu reservation
>>    -  George Dunlap
> I think before actually doing a release with credit2 as the default, we
> want almost an entire development cycle with credit2 as the default, to
> shake out any latent bugs; and probably an entire release with credit2
> listed as "production-ready".
>
> So maybe this goal would be more helpfully stated as "credit2 production
> ready", so that when we open the next development window we can change
> the default immediately?
>
>> *  pvUSB support in libxl (fair)
>>    -  Chunyan Liu
> You can add in hvmUSB support in libxl here, with my name; and call it
> "fair".

You did a new patchset version? The latest I saw, rebased and tested 
(including compatibility with actual spice usb redirection) was long 
time ago and I not saw newer posted in xen-devel.

>
>> *  Blktap2 support (none)
>>    -  George Dunlap
> I'm planning on doing it, but I haven't spec'd the actual work yet.  Is
> "fair" the best description for that?
>
>   -George