From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Meng Xu Subject: Re: Xen 4.7 Development Update Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 22:30:53 +0800 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta4.messagelabs.com ([85.158.143.247]) by lists.xen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1aGSdZ-0000Gj-8V for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2016 14:31:01 +0000 Received: by mail-ob0-f195.google.com with SMTP id or18so22852552obb.3 for ; Tue, 05 Jan 2016 06:30:54 -0800 (PST) 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: Wei Liu Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org" List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org 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 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/