Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.4 development update: Feature freeze has started

[Elena Ufimtseva <ufimtseva@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 4:38 AM, Dario Faggioli
<dario.faggioli@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On lun, 2013-11-11 at 17:18 +0000, George Dunlap wrote:
>
>> = Timeline =
>>
>> Here is our current timeline based on a 6-month release:
>>
>> * Feature freeze: 18 October 2013 <== WE ARE HERE
>> * Code freezing point: 18 November 2013 (Note date change)
>> * First RC: 6 December 2013
>> * Release: 21 January 2014
>
>> === Big ticket items ===
>
>> * Meta: PVIO NUMA improvements
>>  - NUMA affinity for vcpus
>>     owner: Dario
>>     status: Patches posted
>>
> v2 posted, with a new, more general, architecture.
>
>>  - PV guest NUMA interface
>>     owner: Elena
>>     status: v2 posted
>>
> v2 posted, right Elena? I'm on it reviewing right now.
Correct, I hope to work on reviewed patches and send them again.
>
>>  - Sensible dom0 NUMA layout
>>
> I did start working on something related to this, but had to stop. I'd
> mark this as 'deferred to 4.5', or something like that.
>
>>  - Toolstack pinning backend thread / virq to appropraite d0 vcpu
>>
> This has a dependency on all the three above (vcpu soft affinity, vNUMA
> and dom0 layout).
>
>>  - NUMA-aware ballooning
>>     owner: Li Yechen
>>     status: in progress
>>
> I think Yechen is still interested/working on this, but this has a
> dependency on vNUMA, so at this point it may be worth waiting a bit more
> to see how vNUMA end up being.
>
>> * NUMA Memory migration
>>   owner: dario@citrix
>>   status: In progress
>>
> Deferred to 4.5. Honestly, although it is true I posted an RFC a while
> back, since nothing more than that hit @xen-devel as of last Oct 18, I
> think this should probably be in the section below ("Missed the feature
> freeze").
>
>> == Missed the feature freeze ==
>
>> * HVM guest NUMA
>>   owner: Matt Wilson@amazon
>>   status: in progress (?)
>>
> This is 'Deferred to 4.5', right Matt?
>
> Regards,
> Dario
>
> --
> <<This happens because I choose it to happen!>> (Raistlin Majere)
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> Dario Faggioli, Ph.D, http://about.me/dario.faggioli
> Senior Software Engineer, Citrix Systems R&D Ltd., Cambridge (UK)
>



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Elena

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