Hi Gustavo and Salil,
On 5/22/25 1:06 AM, Gustavo Romero wrote:
Hi Salil, Gavin, and folks,
On 5/20/25 21:22, Gavin Shan wrote:
Hi Salil,
A kindly ping. vCPU hotplug is an important feature and You has put so much
energies and amazing efforts to enable the feature from QEMU side, but it
seems it has been stuck recently. I received many messages from Redhat
internal and external to ask if vCPU hotplug has been supported on aarch64
in the past. So I'm heading up to check if you have bandwidth to continue
the effort, any kinds of helps are needed, especially from me.
You can count on me as well, Salil. I'm definitely in a better position now
to help you with the technical review of the series, and I can also weigh in
to help resolve any remaining issues so we can finally get it merged. Don't
give up! :)
My suggestion: go ahead and post what you have now. Just highlight the main
points of objection raised in the last review that still need to be addressed.
Thanks for your response and to offer helps. Another suggestion I have in mind:
if there is uncertainty regarding the design, it would be nice to post a
specific
thread for discussion until it's cleared prior to diving into code. After the
design is acknowledged by maintainers, our life will be much easier. The point
is to get enough attentions and feedbacks from the maintainers until it's
acknowledged.
Besides, I'm reluctantly to ask if you're fine for some body else to pick this
up and continue the effort. The credits for all the contributors (Keqian Zhu,
Jean Philippe, Miguel Luis and you) will be kept.
I don’t want to speak for others, but in my view, Salil should ideally be the
one to complete this work — as you said, he’s already invested a great deal of
time and energy into it.
It would be tremendously helpful if maintainers could support Salil in bringing
this to completion, kindly guiding him toward the path to get it finalized.
Absolutely, Salil knows all the details, especially the historic steps how vCPU
hotplug has been evolving. I truly hope Salil is able to continue the efforts
until
the feature lands upstream!
Thanks,
Gavin
