On Monday 23 April 2007 23:56:38 Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Hi Andi,
>
> It applies to 2.6.21-rc7 + your patches + the last batch of pv_ops
> patches
I got most of those except for the broken sched_clock change.
> I posted.
How much testing outside Jeremylabs has it gotten? Some beta
testing before merging would be good, otherwise we'll just have
a flood of fixes shortly when it is exposed to users.
> This patch generally restricts itself to Xen-specific parts of the tree,
> though it does make a few small changes elsewhere.
The general problem is that it is much more than just an architecture update.
> These patches include:
> - some helper routines for allocating address space and walking pagetables
Needs review from mm people.
> - Xen interface header files
> - Core Xen implementation
> - Efficient late-pinning/early-unpinning pagetable handling
The number of new paravirt hooks makes me thing of renaming it to
everything_ops @|
> - Virtualized time, including stolen time
Can you let it be reviewed by the time people? (Thomas, Ingo, John, Roman etc.)
> - SMP support
> - Preemption support
> - Batched pagetable updates
> - Xen console, based on hvc console
> - Xenbus
That one would need to be reviewed first. It's so much code that I can't
do it all myself.
> - Netfront, the paravirtualized network device
That one should go through the network device maintainer/netdev.
> - Blockfront, the paravirtualized block device
And that needs a block device review and whoever maintains that (Jens?)
-Andi
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