> -----Original Message----- > From: Sumit Semwal [mailto:sumit.semwal@xxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Tuesday, May 9, 2017 5:41 AM > To: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; KY Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Greg > Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: [v3 PATCH for-4.4 3/7] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Reduce the delay > between retries in vmbus_post_msg() > > 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. I am not sure if all the needed changes will meet the stable requirements. K. Y > > Best, > Sumit. > > > > Ben. > > > > -- > > Ben Hutchings > > Software Developer, Codethink Ltd. > > > > > > > > -- > Thanks and regards, > > Sumit Semwal > Linaro Mobile Group - Kernel Team Lead > Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs
