From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lars Kurth Subject: Re: Xen 4.5 Development Update (GA slip by a week) - reviewing experimental/preview tags Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 17:24:19 +0000 Message-ID: References: <20150105200832.49EFC6A059F@l.oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.6\)) 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 1Y8Xrk-0007Wz-TV for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Tue, 06 Jan 2015 17:24:25 +0000 Received: by mail-we0-f170.google.com with SMTP id w61so10060879wes.15 for ; Tue, 06 Jan 2015 09:24:23 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20150105200832.49EFC6A059F@l.oracle.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: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , Ian Campbell , Ian Jackson , tim deegan , Keir Fraser , xen-devel List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org (Reduced CC list) Hi all, updating http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_Project_Release_Features there appear to be a few features where it may be worth to upgrade a feature for 4.5. The following ones spring to mind * Credit 2 Scheduler : experimental to preview - actually this raises the question what the difference is * Nested Virt - I did see a few tests being developed recently and have not seen anyone raise bugs. It is also a requirement for OpenStack * OVMF/Tianocore : experimental to preview I am assuming the following ones remain unchanged? * Memory Ballooning/Sharing - have not seen any extra tools support * TMEM Regards Lars On 5 Jan 2015, at 20:08, konrad.wilk@oracle.com wrote: > Xen 4.5-rc4 was out on Monday (Dec 15th). The GA > General Release is on Jan 7th^H^H^14th! > > There are some outstanding patches on which we need to figure > out whether we will commit them in or not. > > When we commit a patch in, the OSSTest takes a day or so to push it to 'master' > - and if it fails during that time patches that are later in the sequence are > not applied. Hence if everything works out great - we get the patches > to show up next day - however if something breaks - we are stalled. > > Ian(s) has pointed to me that the OSSTest is sometimes on the fritz and that it > might take more than one day to push patches through which means we won't > make it by Wednesday. > > As such, moving it the release by a week to give us ample room to get through > those changes. > > These are the patches that need to be investigated whether they should > go in or not: > > VT-d: don't crash when PTE bits 52 and up are non-zero > VT-d: extend XSA-59 workaround to XeonE5 v3 (Haswell) > VT-d: make XSA-59 workaround fully cover XeonE5/E7 v2 > x86/VPMU: Clear last_vcpu when destroying VPMU > tools/hotplug: add wrapper to start xenstored > tools/hotplug: remove EnvironmentFile from xen-qemu-dom0-disk-backend.service > tools/hotplug: use XENCONSOLED_TRACE in xenconsoled.service > tools/hotplug: use xencommons as EnvironmentFile in xenconsoled.service > tools/hotplug: xendomains.service depends on network > tools/hotplug: remove XENSTORED_ROOTDIR from xenstored.service > tools/hotplug: remove SELinux options from var-lib-xenstored.mount > tools/libxl: Use of init()/dispose() to avoid leaking libxl_dominfo.ss > xen: arm: correct off-by-one error in consider_module > > > = Timeline = > > Xen 4.5 is a 10 month release. The dates are: > > * Feature Freeze: 24th September 2014 > * First RC: 24th October [Friday!] > * RC2: Nov 11th > * RC2 Test-day: Nov 13th > * RC3: Dec 3rd. > * RC3 Test-day: Dec 4th > * RC4: Dec 15th > * RC4 Test-day: Dec 17th > > <==== WE ARE HERE ===> > > Release Date: Jan 14th. > > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > Xen-devel@lists.xen.org > http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel