Re: Xen 4.19 release management plan

[Oleksii <oleksii.kurochko@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2024-01-16 at 17:48 +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> (reducing Cc list)
> 
> On 16.01.2024 17:32, Oleksii wrote:
> > Please reply with items you would like to see in 4.19 so that
> > people
> > know what is happening and prioritize accordingly.
> > You're welcome to provide a description and use cases of the
> > feature
> > you're working on.
> 
> The "annotate entry points with type and size" series including as
> many
> as possible follow-ups on the x86 and Arm side, ideally bringing both
> architectures fully in shape for the new model.
> 
> On x86,
> - among smaller scope ISA extension work we probably want to make
>   sure AVX10.1 is going to be usable by guests (patches already
> posted),
> - "x86: memcpy() / memset() (non-)ERMS flavors plus fallout"
> 
> There's likely more, but let's go with this for now.
Thanks for sharing your items.

I would suggest that we also pay attention to the following:
 * NUMA: no need for asm/numa.h when !NUMA
 * move __read_mostly to xen/cache.h

At least, I am really interested in them as they are dependencies for
RISC-V patches.


Best regards,
 Oleksii