Re: [Xen-devel] Requesting for freeze exception for RMRR

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 02:43:05PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 17.07.15 at 15:21, <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > The major concern seems to be around the PCI allocation algorithm. Jan
> > has different opinion from George. George provided a simple solution
> > that will not make things worse than before, while Jan prefers to get
> > everything right.
> > 
> > To be fair, the PCI allocation code in a bad state is not really
> > contributor's fault.
> > 
> > Jan also pointed out on IRC he thinks the proper logic he asked for is
> > not very hard to implement.
> > 
> > Given we either take George's route, which already seems to have a
> > patch, or Jan's route, which he thinks shouldn't be too hard to
> > implement, I'm inclined to say give this series another week (24th
> > deadline still applied). Note that we've been working on this for ages,
> > any delay is going to burn up more energy than necessary.
> > 
> > Jan and George, if you disagree with what I say above, please reply.
> 
> My main disagreement here continues to be that we're talking
> about a bug fix, and hence I don't view this as needing a freeze
> exception in the first place (at least not at this point in time). Yes,
> the bug fix involves adding code that looks like a new feature, but
> that happens with bug fixes.
> 

Fine then. I'm not going to argue feature vs bug fix at this stage.  The
final resolution is still the same. Tiejun can continue working on this
next week.

Wei.

> Jan

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