On 07/08/2023 2:24 am, Henry Wang wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Following the release schedule discussion in in April, I am sending this email > to remind that according to the release schedule [1], August 11 (this Friday) > will be the last posting date, when patches adding new features are expected > to be posted to the mailing list by this date. > > Also, note that we currently have 1 release blocker [2] which might need > some attention. > > [1] > https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/as8pr08mb79919f9ce0b2bf80e7103fb592...@as8pr08mb7991.eurprd08.prod.outlook.com/ > [2] https://gitlab.com/xen-project/xen/-/issues/114
Off the top of my head. There are still unaddressed Gitlab bugs from the Eclair integration, and other Gitlab bugs (use of unstable containers) which I'd unwilling to let 4.18 be released with, given the pain we've had on the stable trees trying to keep CI working. There's the XENVERSION_* hypercall ABI truncation fixes which is a blocker for XenServer (I'm refusing to forward port a piece of technical debt when it needs fixing upstream). There's another thing on the back of Tuesday's mess which has technically been posted years ago - the proper eIBRS support, but I want to refresh and get sorted for 4.18. I expect it to be an even bigger perf win than the ARCH_CAPS work was. But I'm not going to have time to get that sorted this week. At this point, I'm hoping to squeeze in before RC1, along with some compelling perf numbers. ~Andrew
