Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/3] Xen hvm saving improvements

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2013-12-16 at 02:17 +0000, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> This series is *very* RFC at the moment - it is only compile tested.  I would
> very much appreciate review on the design. (and I shall see about sorting out
> some dev testing tomorrow)
> 
> The ultimate purpose is to fix that the fact that
> XEN_DOMCTL_gethvmcontext_partial is very unreliable at providing the correct
> subset of information.
> 
> All the changes are supposed to be internal to Xen.  There should be no
> difference at all to the result of XEN_DOMCTL_gethvmcontext (which can be used
> as a useful dev test for the validity of the changes).
> 
> George: As for whether this is intended for 4.5, I have no idea.  On the one
> hand, it is fixing a hypercall which doesn't function correctly, but on the
> other hand, it is a very large and complicated set of changes relevant to
> migration.  Then again, the majority of the changes were largely mechanical,
> and there is a simple test to prove whether there are bugs or not.  I shall
> defer to others for comments on the risk/rewards of this series.

IMHO this is obviously not 4.4 material at this stage. Apart from
anything else we've been managing to release with these short comings
for many years.



_______________________________________________
Xen-devel mailing list
Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel