Hi Alex, On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 1:21 PM, Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org> 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?
Indeed, it has been a while. > > > 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. I've been quite busy lately, but expect the v8 of the LL/SC patch series by the end of this week. Sorry for the delay. In any case, I'm in if any call will be held. Regards, alvise > > > - 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