Re: [Qemu-devel] MTTCG Sync-up call today? Agenda items?

[Mark Burton]

Good plan :-)
Cheers
Mark.

> On 11 Apr 2016, at 13:21, Alex Bennée <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> It's been awhile since we synced-up with quite weeks and Easter out of
> the way are we good for a call today?
> 
> Some items I can think would be worth covering:
> 
>  - State of MTTCG enabled LL/SC
> 
>    I think Alvise was looking at some run-loop changes for the MTTCG
>    enabled part of his LL/SC patch set. I haven't heard anything for a
>    while.
> 
>  - Linaro's current efforts
> 
>    Sergey is currently working with us in up-streaming MTTCG related
>    patches. We've taken stuff from Paolo and Fred's trees and push
>    several series to the list for review:
>      - various TCG clean-ups
>      - atomic jump patching
>      - base enabling patches
> 
>  - Memory ordering work
> 
>    I put this up as a suggested project for GSoC and we had several
>    applicants. We are currently awaiting Google's decision on slot
>    allocations so hopefully we'll have an extra pair of hands on this
>    chunk.
> 
>  - Emilio's work
> 
>    Emilio posted a series last year with some alternative approaches to
>    solving some of the MTTCG problems. He's back and working on this
>    again and has posted his qht series as a precursor to his next
>    revision of the MTTCG tree.
> 
>  - TCG maintainers view
> 
>    It would be useful if we had a view from the TCG maintainers of how
>    we are doing and if the approaches have a chance of getting merged.
> 
>  - Timescales
> 
>    Internally at Linaro we've been discussing potential timescales. We are
>    currently aiming to have all major pieces of MTTCG posted on list and
>    being iterated through reviews before this years KVM Forum. This will
>    leave us KVM forum to resolve any remaining barriers to eventual
>    up-streaming.
> 
> Anything else worthy of discussion? If you need the number to call ping
> me off list.
> 
> --
> Alex Bennée


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