Re: [PATCH] kvm: qemu: Sync idcache after emualted DMA operations for ia64

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

Hollis Blanchard wrote:
>> So I can release kvm-85.  I don't like it either.
>>     
>
> You don't need to commit it:
>      1. KVM on ia64 has made it for this long without that patch.
>   

Apparently, this was triggered by recent changes to the dma-api?  Xiantao?

>      2. The ia64 guys didn't even reply, much less revise the patch.
>   

See below.

>      3. The patch quality is clearly not high enough to be committed to
>         qemu (at least, one would hope), so you're just going to have to
>         revert it to apply a better fix anyways.
>   

I agree that the patch is not correct.  If it is not fixed by the end of 
this month, you may send a patch to revert this change.

> I don't see why all ia64 patches had to be applied for kvm-85,
> regardless of merit.
>   

I like to make releases that are not useless.  For that I sometimes have 
to resort to band-aids.  Comments like yours about the quality of these 
band aids will be addressed.

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Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.