From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Meng Xu Subject: Re: Xen 4.7 Development Update Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2016 00:03:35 +0800 Message-ID: References: <20160105143414.GA23818@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 1aGU5C-00089A-CO for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2016 16:03:38 +0000 Received: by mail-oi0-f67.google.com with SMTP id o62so25412138oif.1 for ; Tue, 05 Jan 2016 08:03:36 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20160105143414.GA23818@citrix.com> 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 On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 10:34 PM, Wei Liu wrote: > 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) ? Ah, my fault. :-( Yes, it should be under "Hypervisor" section because it's generic. Thank you so much for your correction! Best, Meng ----------- Meng Xu PhD Student in Computer and Information Science University of Pennsylvania http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~mengxu/