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Latest revision as of 20:11, 30 April 2014
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Attendees
- Andres Lagar-Cavilla
- Boris Ostrovsky
- Daniel De Graf
- Don Dugger
- George Dunlap
- James Bulpin
- Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
- Lars Kurth
- Matt Wilson
- Sherry Hurwitz
- Ian Campbell
Review ACTIONS
- Nested HVM:
- Don:
thread didn't happen but work is on going.
- Sherry:
AMD is actively testing Christoph Egger has helped out a bit ACTION: Carried over, was started in May, but not much activity due to vacations
- Konrad: to approach Coverity about free service and ask about security
Lars offered to sync up with Coverity at CLS ... no Coverty rep attended
Ongoing work
Boris: How do we handle incomplete features in Xen?
George: depends on size and risk of feature. We can mark it as experimental. Note that we don't have a separate staging tree, so we tend to not compile incomplete features by default. Example boot options (not enabled by default).
Konrad: asked whether we had a general rule/guidance about this
George: We tend to #ifdef incomplete code out. For example PVH code can be checked in with #ifdef's to reduce the need for catch-ups. There is also the option to host personal public branches on a xenbits git tree
Coordination on current & future work
Xen 4.4 Planning
Goals
- Shorter release cycle (from 9 to 6 months) - see George's 1st 4.4 Development Update on xen-devel. Advantages: shorter RCs, less impact if changes are missed
Proposal:
- Plan for Jan 21st release of 4.4
- Feature freeze mid-October
Action All: provide feedback, raise hands if this is an issue
George has an internal backlog. Big items:
- Event Channel Scalability
- PVH Mode
- Credit2 scheduler as default
- I/O improvements - see Hackathon minutes at http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Hackathon#May_2013_.5BHackathon_Minutes.5D
- Elena's virtual NUMA topology work
- Nested Virt: would like to move to production in 4.4
Action George: Kick of 4.4 planning discussion on xen-devel ✓
Community news, activities
Lars: explained that the Xen 4.3 press release gave us the best coverage since Lars took over
Action Lars: send press report to list - attached ✓
Lars: reminded everyone of Xen User Summit and Xen Developer Summit CfPs
Question: will sessions be recorded?
Lars: Yes, we will record screens and voice (aka voiced over presentations) and post on xenproject.org (as well as vimeo and slideshare)
AOB
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