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[Xen-devel] Re: [RFC] tmem ABI change... backwards compatibility unneces

To: "Dan Magenheimer" <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: [RFC] tmem ABI change... backwards compatibility unnecessary?
From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:04:23 +0100
Cc: JeremyFitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>, "Xen-Devel \(xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx\)" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, tmem-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, kurt.hackel@xxxxxxxxxx, Vasiliy G Tolstov <v.tolstov@xxxxxxxxx>, Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, stephen.spector@xxxxxxxxxx, Chris Mason <chris.mason@xxxxxxxxxx>
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>>> On 01.09.10 at 16:36, Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I *think* it is still the case that tmem is experimental
> and is not used anywhere yet in production.  If I am
> wrong, PLEASE LET ME KNOW ASAP.

Well, if you call us shipping it (default disabled) in a couple of
releases "not used in production"...

> I am inclined to update the Xen tmem implementation
> to only support v1 and gracefully fail v0.

If "graceful" really means what it says, this would appear to be
acceptable irrespective of my note above.

Jan


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