Re: [ANNOUNCE / RFC] PUCK Future Topics

From: Sean Christopherson
Date: Thu Dec 14 2023 - 11:34:18 EST


On Thu, Dec 14, 2023, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Dec 2023 00:17:53 +0000,
> Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all! There are a handful of PUCK topics that I want to get scheduled, and
> > would like your help/input in confirming attendance to ensure we reach critical
> > mass.
> >
> > If you are on the Cc, please confirm that you are willing and able to attend
> > PUCK on the proposed/tentative date for any topics tagged with your name. Or
> > if you simply don't want to attend, I suppose that's a valid answer too. :-)
> >
> > If you are not on the Cc but want to ensure that you can be present for a given
> > topic, please speak up asap if you have a conflict. I will do my best to
> > accomodate everyone's schedules, and the more warning I get the easier that will
> > be.
> >
> > Note, the proposed schedule is largely arbitrary, I am not wedded to any
> > particular order. The only known conflict at this time is the guest_memfd()
> > post-copy discussion can't land on Jan 10th.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> >
> > 2024.01.03 - Post-copy for guest_memfd()
> > Needs: David M, Paolo, Peter Xu, James, Oliver, Aaron
> >
> > 2024.01.10 - Unified uAPI for protected VMs
> > Needs: Paolo, Isaku, Mike R
> >
> > 2024.01.17 - Memtypes for non-coherent MDA
>
> DMA?

Doh, yes, DMA.

> > Needs: Paolo, Yan, Oliver, Marc, more ARM folks?
>
> Do we need anyone from the other architectures? I wouldn't be
> surprised if RISC-V was at least as picky as ARM on that front
> (assuming this really is about DMA and not something else).

Ah, yeah, probably. I had just heard rumblings about ARM, and so ARM was on my
mind. I added people from all the other flavors of KVM.