> -----Original Message----- > From: Tamas K Lengyel <ta...@tklengyel.com> > Sent: 01 June 2020 19:38 > To: George Dunlap <george.dun...@citrix.com> > Cc: p...@xen.org; Tamas K Lengyel <tamas.leng...@intel.com>; xen-devel <xen- > de...@lists.xenproject.org>; Kevin Tian <kevin.t...@intel.com>; Stefano > Stabellini > <sstabell...@kernel.org>; Jun Nakajima <jun.nakaj...@intel.com>; Wei Liu > <w...@xen.org>; Andrew Cooper > <andrew.coop...@citrix.com>; Ian Jackson <ian.jack...@citrix.com>; Jan > Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com>; > Anthony Perard <anthony.per...@citrix.com>; Julien Grall <jul...@xen.org>; > Roger Pau Monne > <roger....@citrix.com> > Subject: Re: [PATCH v19 for-4.14 00/13] VM forking > > On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 11:11 AM George Dunlap <george.dun...@citrix.com> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Jun 1, 2020, at 4:07 PM, Paul Durrant <xadimg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > >> -----Original Message----- > > >> From: Xen-devel <xen-devel-boun...@lists.xenproject.org> On Behalf Of > > >> Tamas K Lengyel > > >> Sent: 01 June 2020 14:22 > > >> To: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org > > >> Cc: Kevin Tian <kevin.t...@intel.com>; Stefano Stabellini > > >> <sstabell...@kernel.org>; Tamas K > Lengyel > > >> <tamas.leng...@intel.com>; Jun Nakajima <jun.nakaj...@intel.com>; Wei > > >> Liu <w...@xen.org>; Andrew > Cooper > > >> <andrew.coop...@citrix.com>; Ian Jackson <ian.jack...@eu.citrix.com>; > > >> George Dunlap > > >> <george.dun...@citrix.com>; Tamas K Lengyel <ta...@tklengyel.com>; Jan > > >> Beulich > <jbeul...@suse.com>; > > >> Anthony PERARD <anthony.per...@citrix.com>; Julien Grall > > >> <jul...@xen.org>; Roger Pau Monné > > >> <roger....@citrix.com> > > >> Subject: [PATCH v19 for-4.14 00/13] VM forking > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > This series looks to be largely un-acked so, since we are now past the > > > freeze date, I don't > really think it can go into 4.14. Is there a particular reason that you think > it should be considered? > > > > Tamas’ project itself mainly uses libxc and below, as I understand; and so > > getting patches 1 and 2 > in would be an important milestone; both have had R-b’s before the feature > freeze. Arguably patches 1 > and 2 are a bug fix. Patch 1 is missing VMX (or a general x86). > > Correct. The first two patches going in would decide whether we will > be able to use the 4.14 release without having to carry out-of-tree > patches. Although as things stand at the moment regarding all the bugs > being discovered in 4.13 and 4.14 we will likely still have to > backport all of these patches to 4.12 by hand.
That sounds like a reasonable justification. Maintainers/committers, can we please get those patches in a.s.a.p.? Paul
