Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.10 Development Update

[Meng Xu <xumengpanda@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 6:07 AM, Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> This email only tracks big items for xen.git tree. Please reply for items you
> woulk like to see in 4.10 so that people have an idea what is going on and
> prioritise accordingly.
>
> You're welcome to provide description and use cases of the feature you're
> working on.
>
> = Timeline =
>
> We now adopt a fixed cut-off date scheme. We will release twice a
> year. The upcoming 4.10 timeline are as followed:
>
> * Last posting date: September 15th, 2017
> * Hard code freeze: September 29th, 2017
> * RC1: TBD
> * Release: December 2, 2017
>
> Note that we don't have freeze exception scheme anymore. All patches
> that wish to go into 4.10 must be posted no later than the last posting
> date. All patches posted after that date will be automatically queued
> into next release.
>
> RCs will be arranged immediately after freeze.
>
> We recently introduced a jira instance to track all the tasks (not only big)
> for the project. See: https://xenproject.atlassian.net/projects/XEN/issues.
>
> Most of the tasks tracked by this e-mail also have a corresponding jira task
> referred by XEN-N.
>
> I have started to include the version number of series associated to each
> feature. Can each owner send an update on the version number if the series
> was posted upstream?
>
> = Projects =
>
> == Hypervisor ==
>
> *  Per-cpu tasklet
>   -  XEN-28
>   -  Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
>
> *  Add support of rcu_idle_{enter,exit}
>   -  XEN-27
>   -  Dario Faggioli

I'm moving the RTDS scheduler to work-conserving scheduler.
The first version of the patch series has been posted at
https://www.mail-archive.com/xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg117062.html,
after we discussed the RFC patch.

Thanks,

Meng

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Meng Xu
PhD Candidate in Computer and Information Science
University of Pennsylvania
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~mengxu/

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