[RFC][groovy][PATCH 0/1] UBUNTU: SAUCE: RDMA/core: Introduce peer memory interface

[Stefan Bader]

On 25.06.21 15:38, dann frazier wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 2:01 AM Stefan Bader <stefan.bader at canonical.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 24.06.21 21:36, dann frazier wrote:
>>> This is a backport of a SAUCE patch we're already carrying in hirsute[*].
>>> In a conversation w/ Terry, he mentioned that he'd like to see some amount
>>> of real world functional testing be completed before we'd consider SRU'ing
>>> to other kernels. That testing will take some scheduling/engineering effort
>>> so, in order to minimize the risk of respins/retests, I'm submitting this as
>>> an RFC. My goal here is to try and fish out any aspects of this patch that
>>> are likely to get NAK'd - even if testing were to pass.
>>
>> My primary argument against any larger scale change to Groovy is that it goes
>> EOL in July. So why bothering?
> 
> That's a good question Stefan. The ultimate goal is to have it
> backported to focal/5.4, this is just to prevent focal-ga -> focal-hwe
> regressions. Is it correct that the last cycle that will have both 5.4
> and 5.8 would be 2021.07.12? In which case, we're unlikely to have a
> 5.4 version ready in that time frame anyway, so I'd agree we should
> just skip 5.8.

The plan at the moment is to have 5.11 become the default hwe kernel for Focal 
by end of this cycle (if test results look good enough). Next cycle would be 
only done if things do not work out.

-Stefan
> 
>    -dann
> 


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