Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.11 Development Update

[Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>]

On 08/01/18 13:29, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 10:16:38AM +0100, Juergen Gross wrote:
>> This email only tracks big items for xen.git tree. Please reply for items you
>> would like to see in 4.11 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 4.11 timeline are as followed:
>>
>> * Last posting date: March 16th, 2018
>> * Hard code freeze: March 30th, 2018
>> * RC1: TBD
>> * Release: June 1st, 2018
>>
>> Note that we don't have freeze exception scheme anymore. All patches
>> that wish to go into 4.11 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
>>
>> === x86 === 
>>
>> *  Enable Memory Bandwidth Allocation in Xen (v10)
>>   -  XEN-48
>>   -  Yi Sun
> 
> Almost done -- waiting for me to commit toolstack patches.
> 
> And track Mitigation (various series) for all the recent security
> issues?
> 
> They should be blockers for 4.11 IMHO.

Absolutely. I'll add those, but I hope we won't need all of them.


Juergen

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