Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v4] altp2m: Allow the hostp2m entries to be of type p2m_ram_shared

[Tamas K Lengyel <tamas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 7:36 AM, Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Tamas: George brought this thread to my attention.  I'm sorry that you
> feel blocked and/or overruled.  The hypervisor MM code is not my area
> of expertise, but I have a keen interest in seeing a good, productive
> and friendly Xen community.  I definitely don't want to see you pushed
> away, and driven to maintain an out-of-tree patchset.
>
> Reading through your mails there seem to still have unresolved
> detailed technical disagreements between you and George about the
> existing behaviours in Xen, and the effects of your proposed changes.
>
> Right now I would like to ask both you and George to sort out those
> factual disagreements.  I expect that you can do so.  I hope that then
> the way forward will be clear: ie that you and George willbe in
> agreement about the direction in which the code should be going.
>
> I think that would be better than getting into a more abstract
> conversation about which use cases exist or are important, or an
> argument about areas of responsibility or authority.
>
> If either of you feel that you aren't able to agree on the facts, or
> that that conversation is not proceeding constructively, I'm be happy
> to try to help.  You can contact me by email in public or private, or
> find me as Diziet on irc.
>
> (In a complex codebase like Xen there will always be overlap or
> interference between different maintainers' bailiwicks, so we
> definitely do need to be able to come to some kind of agreement,
> rather than everyone insisting on their own authority in what they
> regard as their own area.)
>
> Regards,
> Ian.

Thanks Ian, I agree and hope we can get back to technical issues as
well. I certainly didn't mean to escalate this. I do hope we can get
to the bottom of what concerns are applicable to this change and
discuss what we can do to address those in a reasonable fashion.

Best,
Tamas

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