From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wei Liu Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 00/15] Alternate p2m: support multiple copies of host p2m Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 18:12:41 +0100 Message-ID: <20150723171241.GG12377@zion.uk.xensource.com> References: <1437606081-6964-1-git-send-email-edmund.h.white@intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1437606081-6964-1-git-send-email-edmund.h.white@intel.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: Ed White Cc: Ravi Sahita , Wei Liu , Jun Nakajima , George Dunlap , Ian Jackson , Tim Deegan , xen-devel@lists.xen.org, Jan Beulich , Andrew Cooper , tlengyel@novetta.com, Daniel De Graaf List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Hi all As I understand it most pending issues of this series are minor and the final day for committing is tomorrow. Checking this series in as-is is going to create some technical debt that either maintainers or Intel developers need to pay back in the future (and Intel has signed up for that, thank you). The clock is ticking but there is still disagreement, so I would like to share some of my thoughts from a strategic point of view. I think this feature is important and gives us strategic advantages. I'm not aware of other open source hypervisors that support such feature. It is essential to VM introspection. It will help Xen project catch up in NFV market. The feature is interesting in its own right I would imagine power users / developers can do many interesting things with it. >>From my point of view the benefits out-weight technical debt. Wei.