On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 08:49:49AM -0700, Jesse Gross wrote: > On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 8:38 AM, Nithin Raju <nit...@vmware.com> wrote: > >> On Sep 23, 2015, at 8:33 AM, Jesse Gross <je...@nicira.com> wrote: > >> > >> On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 11:04 PM, Nithin Raju <nit...@vmware.com> wrote: > >>> hi Jesse, > >>> We are getting the Hyper-V solution to a state with the following goals: > >>> - Work “out of the box” ie. no need to make special settings such as > >>> disabling checksum offload, TSO, etc. > >>> - Reasonably stable > >>> > >>> Most of the patches we have checked in so far into 2.4 are geared towards > >>> these two goals. Once all of the required changes go in, and we are > >>> reasonably confident about the stability, we can hopefully make an > >>> announcement about Hyper-V support. > >> > >> This is my concern - there should not be any announcements based on > >> stable branches because there should be no development on stable > >> branches. The only thing that should go in is targeted bug fixes to > >> address issues that came up after the release. > >> > >> All of the goals that you listed are good things and make sense - on > >> the master branch. However, I don't see a need to bring these back to > >> 2.4. My guess is that there is no more churn in the common code on > >> master than with the Windows patches here. > >> > >> So please just target 2.5 as the release to make an announcement about > >> Hyper-V support. I promise that this release cycle won't be as long as > >> 2.4. > > > > Jesse, > > We were hoping for a dot release off of 2.4. Like a 2.4.1 or 2.4.2 to > > announce support. Would that not be the right release vehicle? > > No, there should be no new features in point releases. 2.5 is the next > release where it would makes sense to do this. My guess is that will > be some time around the end of the year.
The patches I've seen from the Hyper-V developers so far are just in Hyper-V specific code, that can't really affect the stability of the rest of the platform. I have questions about the value of doing this on 2.4, given that 2.5 will branch in a reasonable amount of time, but since they're eager to do it I'm not sure that it's worth discouraging them ;-) _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
