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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Gautam Dawar <gdawar@xilinx.com>
Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	Martin Petrus Hubertus Habets <martinh@xilinx.com>,
	eperezma <eperezma@redhat.com>,
	Harpreet Singh Anand <hanand@xilinx.com>,
	Tanuj Murlidhar Kamde <tanujk@xilinx.com>,
	Pablo Cascon <pabloc@xilinx.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Allow VIRTIO_F_IN_ORDER to be negotiated for vdpa devices
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2022 03:32:45 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220217032859-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BY5PR02MB698031726B87245DAD482982B1369@BY5PR02MB6980.namprd02.prod.outlook.com>

On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 08:27:14AM +0000, Gautam Dawar wrote:
> [GD>>] Yes , I agree a complete solution that will support the
> emulated virtio device with in_order rx/tx virtqueue functions will
> definitely be better but at the same time it will take considerable
> amount of time and effort. I also noticed that something similar
> (https://patchew.org/QEMU/1533833677-27512-1-git-send-email-i.maximets@samsung.com/)
> was proposed years ago which got dropped for similar reasons and it
> has been status quo since then.


Not applying a patch until it's complete is really the only
leverage maintainers have to push for complete patches.
Otherwise people keep adding half-baked code and hoping
that someone else does the rest of the work.

>  So, unless we know that this work is
> already in progress & will be up-streamed soon and if you don’t see
> any side-effects of this patch, we can get it integrated first and
> then this can be reverted when the complete solution is available.
> This would help in benchmarking performance boosts achieved with
> IN_ORDER feature.

You can just carry the patch in private for benchmarking I guess?

-- 
MST



  reply	other threads:[~2022-02-17  9:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-02-15  7:22 [PATCH 0/2] Allow VIRTIO_F_IN_ORDER negotiation with vhost-vdpa Gautam Dawar
2022-02-15  7:22 ` [PATCH 1/2] linux headers: update against Linux 5.17-rc4 Gautam Dawar
2022-02-17  7:17   ` Jason Wang
2022-02-17  9:06     ` Gautam Dawar
2022-02-15  7:22 ` [PATCH 2/2] Allow VIRTIO_F_IN_ORDER to be negotiated for vdpa devices Gautam Dawar
2022-02-15 15:22   ` Eugenio Perez Martin
2022-02-17  7:16   ` Jason Wang
2022-02-17  8:27     ` Gautam Dawar
2022-02-17  8:32       ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2022-02-17  8:54     ` Eugenio Perez Martin
2022-02-17  7:32   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2022-02-17 14:29     ` Stefano Garzarella
2022-02-18 10:24       ` Eugenio Perez Martin
2022-02-18 16:57         ` Stefano Garzarella
2022-02-18 10:22     ` Eugenio Perez Martin
2022-02-21  4:31       ` Jason Wang
2022-02-18 11:09   ` Michael S. Tsirkin

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