Re: [v3 PATCH for-4.4 3/7] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Reduce the delay between retries in vmbus_post_msg()

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Hi Ben,

On 9 May 2017 at 18:06, Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-04-20 at 13:08 +0530, Sumit Semwal wrote:
>> From: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> [ Upstream commit 8de0d7e951826d7592e0ba1da655b175c4aa0923 ]
>>
>> The current delay between retries is unnecessarily high and is negatively
>> affecting the time it takes to boot the system.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@xxxxxxxxxx>
> [...]
>
> Should this also be applied to 4.4?
>
> commit c0bb03924f1a80e7f65900e36c8e6b3dc167c5f8
> Author: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Wed Dec 7 01:16:24 2016 -0800
>
>     Drivers: hv: vmbus: Raise retry/wait limits in vmbus_post_msg()

I tried to rebase that to 4.4 code base, but 4.4 seems to require some
more patches to make it work - some of those patches might not fit the
stable requirements.

I'm not a hv expert, so didn't want to mess up, and hence didn't send it.

Best,
Sumit.
>
> Ben.
>
> --
> Ben Hutchings
> Software Developer, Codethink Ltd.
>
>



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Thanks and regards,

Sumit Semwal
Linaro Mobile Group - Kernel Team Lead
Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs




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