Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/3] Make credit2 the default scheduler

[George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 02/06/2018 10:39 PM, Dario Faggioli wrote:
> On Tue, 2018-02-06 at 17:02 +0000, George Dunlap wrote:
>> On 02/06/2018 06:18 AM, Juergen Gross wrote:
>>> On 05/02/18 17:53, Dario Faggioli wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Considering we're releasing in June, but freezing in March, do we
>>>> think
>>>>  it is still early enough?
>>
>>> The 4.11 release is completely dominated by Meltdown/Spectre
>>> mitigation
>>> work. So either 4.11 will be a security focused version or we need
>>> to
>>> extend the development phase.
>>
>> Personally I could go either way on this.  So unless someone wants to
>> argue for switching now (or we significantly extend the development
>> window), let's plan on leaving this for post-4.11.
>>
> Yes, I agree.
> 
> And if we don't switch now, I think we should say that, unless someone
> argues against your reasoning in your other email, and convince us,
> we'll switch as soon as 4.12 is branched (or perhaps as soon as 4.11 is
> released?).

Well I had planned to do that for 4.11, but something came up. :-)
Hopefully nothing similar will come up this time...

 -George

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