On 06/09/2019 08:40, Juergen Gross wrote: > This email only tracks big items for xen.git tree. Please reply for items you > would like to see in 4.13 so that people have an idea what is going on and > prioritise accordingly. > > You're welcome to provide description and use cases of the feature you're > working on. > > = Timeline = > > We now adopt a fixed cut-off date scheme. We will release about every 8 > months. > The upcoming 4.13 timeline are as followed: > > * Last posting date: September 13th, 2019 > * Hard code freeze: September 27th, 2019 > * RC1: TBD > * Release: November 7th, 2019
Wow this has crept up suddenly... I'm going to braindump my "needs to be done for 4.13" list. Before code freeze: 1) Refresh and repost MSR_VIRT_SPEC_CTRL. Still very important for perf on AMD Fam17h hardware. 2) Put together the "skeleton set_cpu_policy" plan. This will help to unblock some of the CPUID/MSR work, and will allow us to take (/backport) MSR_ARCH_CAPS support, which is very critical for perf on Intel Cascade Lake hardware. 2a) Stretch goal. See about getting MSR_ARCH_CAPS working. More likely to be early in the 4.14 dev cycle and backport for 4.13.1 3) Stretch goal. Dust off the domain_crash() changes which have been pending for a couple of releases now. Blockers: 1) L1TF_BARRIER mode. What we have currently in tree takes a perf hit while providing 0 security and breaking the ability to build livepatches against 4.13. My plan here is to put it behind an off-by-default Kconfig option. 2) Get the Sphinx docs licensed as CC-BY, seeing as this is the first release with them in. Misc ought-to-haves: 1) Refresh and repost the "Introduction" and "wishlist" docs. 2) Post the conversion of xen-command-line.pandoc to sphinx which I've been carrying locally rather too long now. This should get the sphinx docs into a state of having several useful bits in, even though we haven't moved over wholesale yet. I've probably missed some things, but this should do for now. ~Andrew _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org https://lists.xenproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel
