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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Paging and memory sharing for HVM guests

To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Paging and memory sharing for HVM guests
From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:59:30 +0000
Cc: Patrick Colp <pjcolp@xxxxxxxxx>, "xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Grzegorz Milos <gm281@xxxxxxxxx>, Andrew Peace <Andrew.Peace@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On 17/12/2009 11:19, "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> The series of 46 patches attached to this email contain the initial
>> implementation of memory paging and sharing for Xen. Patrick Colp
>> leads the work on the pager, and I am mostly responsible for memory
>> sharing. We would be grateful for any comments/suggestions you might
>> have. Individual patches are labeled with comments describing their
>> purpose and a sign-off footnote. Of course we are happy to discuss
>> them in more detail, as required. Assuming that there are no major
>> objections against including them in the mainstream xen-unstable tree,
>> we would like to move future development to that tree.
> 
> as I just realized you already committed these patches - wouldn't it
> make sense to allow for some reviewing/discussion at least for larger
> batches like this? I would really have wanted the Linux side issues I
> already pointed out fixed before they go in, and lacking a general
> description of the approach taken I didn't even take a closer look at
> the Xen side changes (but during the brief check I did, I think I
> spotted at least one problem already).

Well, maybe I jumped the gun a bit. But I think this feature is inevitable
-- everyone wants it -- so it's a choice between fixing up in tree versus
out of tree. Perhaps it would have been better to get at least the first
round of fixes done before check in.

 -- Keir



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