On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 01:27:02AM +0000, Dexuan Cui wrote: > > From: Bjorn Helgaas [mailto:helgaas@xxxxxxxxxx] > > Sent: Tuesday, November 7, 2017 5:08 PM > > On Wed, Nov 01, 2017 at 08:30:53PM +0000, Dexuan Cui wrote: > > > > > > Please consider this for v4.14, if it's not too late. > > > > What would be the rationale for putting it in v4.14? After the merge > > window, I usually only merge fixes for problems introduced during the > > merge window, or for serious regressions. I can't tell if this fits > > into that or not. > > The patch was sent last Wednesday and I hoped it could catch the > merge window to be in v4.14 so we won't have to request a backport > for the v4.14 stable kernel in future. And I was not exactly sure when > the merge window was. Sorry :-) > > The patch is not fixing a serious regression. It just fixes a long standing > issue from the beginning of the Hyper-V vPCI driver: 1 of 7 Mellanox > VFs of a 32-vCPU VM running on Hyper-V may not receive interrupts. No problem. I added a stable tag so the backport should happen automatically and put it on my pci/host-hv branch for v4.15, with Jake's Reviewed-by. Thanks! Bjorn
