On Tue, 7 May 2019 15:58:12 +0200
Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 05.05.19 13:15, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> > On Sat, 4 May 2019 16:03:40 +0200
> > Halil Pasic <pasic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, 3 May 2019 16:04:48 -0400
> >> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 11:17:24AM +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> >>>> On Fri, 26 Apr 2019 20:32:36 +0200
> >>>> Halil Pasic <pasic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> The commit 2a2d1382fe9d ("virtio: Add improved queue allocation API")
> >>>>> establishes a new way of allocating virtqueues (as a part of the effort
> >>>>> that taught DMA to virtio rings).
> >>>>>
> >>>>> In the future we will want virtio-ccw to use the DMA API as well.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Let us switch from the legacy method of allocating virtqueues to
> >>>>> vring_create_virtqueue() as the first step into that direction.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Signed-off-by: Halil Pasic <pasic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>>> ---
> >>>>> drivers/s390/virtio/virtio_ccw.c | 30 +++++++++++-------------------
> >>>>> 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
> >>>>
> >>>> Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>>
> >>>> I'd vote for merging this patch right away for 5.2.
> >>>
> >>> So which tree is this going through? mine?
> >>>
> >>
> >> Christian, what do you think? If the whole series is supposed to go in
> >> in one go (which I hope it is), via Martin's tree could be the simplest
> >> route IMHO.
> >
> >
> > The first three patches are virtio(-ccw) only and the those are the ones
> > that I think are ready to go.
> >
> > I'm not feeling comfortable going forward with the remainder as it
> > stands now; waiting for some other folks to give feedback. (They are
> > touching/interacting with code parts I'm not so familiar with, and lack
> > of documentation, while not the developers' fault, does not make it
> > easier.)
> >
> > Michael, would you like to pick up 1-3 for your tree directly? That
> > looks like the easiest way.
>
> Agreed. Michael please pick 1-3.
> We will continue to review 4- first and then see which tree is best.
Michael, please let me know if you'll pick directly or whether I should
post a series.
[Given that the patches are from one virtio-ccw maintainer and reviewed
by the other, picking directly would eliminate an unnecessary
indirection :)]
