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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
	linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] msi-x: let drivers retry when not enough vectors
Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 17:22:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090508002240.GA30192@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200905080925.01398.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 09:25:00AM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote:
> Sheng is absolutely right, that's a horrid API.

But the API already exists, and is in use by 27 drivers.  If this were a
change to the API, I'd be against it, but it is the existing API.


  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-08  0:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-07  8:28 [PATCH] msi-x: let drivers retry when not enough vectors Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-05-07  8:51 ` Sheng Yang
2009-05-07  9:05   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-05-07  9:10     ` Sheng Yang
2009-05-07  9:31       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-05-07  9:27   ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-05-07  9:40     ` Sheng Yang
2009-05-07  9:53       ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-05-07 10:19         ` Sheng Yang
2009-05-07 10:32           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-05-07 23:55           ` Rusty Russell
2009-05-08  0:22             ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2009-05-08  0:28             ` Michael Ellerman
2009-05-12 21:28             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-05-07 10:23         ` Michael Ellerman
2009-05-07 10:28           ` Sheng Yang
2009-05-07 10:44           ` Avi Kivity
2009-05-07 11:57             ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-06-11 18:28 ` Jesse Barnes

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