Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 16/16] xen/events: use the FIFO-based ABI if available

[David Vrabel <david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 16/10/13 14:26, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> On 10/16/2013 05:46 AM, David Vrabel wrote:
>> 
>> The majority of the risk in this series is the refactoring patches and
>> not the new ABI code so an option to disable it wouldn't really help.
>>
>> Also, if we are not confidant that a feature is production ready that we
>> need knobs to turn it off then we shouldn't merge it.
> 
> I disagree. If this were the case then hardware wouldn't have chicken
> bits and there wouldn't exist half of "no*" options to kernel, for example.
> 
> We are introducing a rewrite of a critical component of the system. It
> has bugs (by definition) and there should be a way to fall back to an
> implementation that presumably has fewer bugs.

Ok.

David

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