Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.3 development update, and stock-taking

[George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 17/01/13 10:00, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
> On 16/01/13 18:55, George Dunlap wrote:
> > * Persistent grants for blk (external)
> >    owner: roger.pau@citrix
> >    status: Initial implementation posted
> >    prognosis: ?
> Done, Linux implementation scheduled for 3.8, and Qemu side is also done
> and being upstreamed right now.
OK, so I'll mark the Linux component as "done", and the qemu component 
as "Good".
> > * Persistent grants for net
> >    owner: annie.li@citrix
> >    status: Initial implementation posted
> >    prognosis: ?
> >
> > * Multi-page blk rings (external)
> >   - blkback in kernel (konrad@oracle, ?@intel)
> >   - qemu blkback
> >    status: Not started.
> >    prognosis: UNKNOWN
> I will be taking on this project, following Intel, FreeBSD and Konrad
> suggestions. Since I'm just starting now, I will mark it as "Fair".
OK, thanks for the info.  Out of curiosity, if someone were to consider 
this a blocker, would having someone else working on it speed things up, 
do you think?  Or is it development probably "non-parallelizable"? :-)
> > * openvswitch toostack integration
> >    owner: roger@citrix
> >    prognosis: ?
> >    status: Sample script posted by Bastian ("[RFC] openvswitch support
> > script")
> I have no experience with Open vSwitch, so if some with more experience
> wants to take on this I would appreciate it. It should just be a matter
> of adding a hotplug script.
OK -- well shall I take your name off and call this "poor"?  That would 
put it on the list of "at-risk" features for which we would ask for 
volunteers.
> > * Rationalized backend scripts (incl. driver domains)
> >    owner: roger@citrix
> >    status: patches submitted
> >    prognosis: Good
> The first part of this effort, that includes a new hotplug interface for
> libxl has been submitted for review. The protocol between the control
> and the driver domains still needs to be designed/revised based on Ian
> Jackson proposal.
OK -- so, should I downgrade this to "Fair"?

Thanks for the updates,

 -George




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