>>> On 24.10.17 at 04:10, <yi.y....@linux.intel.com> wrote: > As you may know, MBA patch set has got enough Reviewed-by/Acked-by in last > week. > It is ready to be merged. > > This is a feature for Skylake, Intel has launched Skylake and KVM already > supported MBA, so including it in Xen 4.10 will quickly fill this gap. > > MBA missed the 4.10 feature freeze date for only a few days due to lack of > timely review for earlier versions which slowed down the patch iteration > notably. > It seems maintainers are very busy recently so that the review progress for > 4.10 > is slower than before. So I am wondering if it is possible to merge it into > 4.10? > > This patch set mainly touches codes related to PSR in > tools/domctl/sysctl/hypervisor. > It does not touch other features. So, the risk is low to merge it.
While I agree the risk is low, I think we should not start making exceptions from the "no freeze exceptions" rule. Even less so for a secondary (or should I pull out my favorite "niche" again?) feature like this one. But in the end it's Julien's call., of course. Jan _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org https://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
