From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Jan Beulich" Subject: Re: Xen 4.7 Development Update Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2016 04:52:51 -0700 Message-ID: <568E5FA302000078000C4556@prv-mh.provo.novell.com> References: <20160107054159.GC2440@hz-desktop.sh.intel.com> <568E3C12.5070709@citrix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta5.messagelabs.com ([195.245.231.135]) by lists.xen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1aH97i-0002aw-K8 for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2016 11:52:58 +0000 In-Reply-To: <568E3C12.5070709@citrix.com> Content-Disposition: inline List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Andrew Cooper , Haozhong Zhang Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, Wei Liu List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org >>> On 07.01.16 at 11:21, wrote: > On 07/01/16 05:41, Haozhong Zhang wrote: >> Hi Wei, >> >> On 01/04/16 10:15, Wei Liu wrote: >> [...] >>> = Projects = >>> >>> == Hypervisor == >> [...] >>> === x86 === >> [...] >>> == Toolstack == >> * vNVDIMM support >> - Haozhong Zhang >> >> This is another item I'm working on and would like to see in 4.7. Not >> quite sure if it belongs to only toolstack, because it also contains >> patches in hypervisor/x86 to enable new instructions, but the primary >> part of v1 patch series is in toolstack. > > The hypervisor side is small, basically mechanical, and already ready IMO. To be honest, I'm not convinced: I didn't look at the patches yet, but with memory management being the hypervisor's job I'm not sure we can get away with those mechanical changes alone. Jan