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Tue, 19 Jul 2022 17:49:15 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <20cba66846a011e2fe8885f15def6ec837d12d0b.camel@linux.ibm.com> Subject: Re: simplify the mdev interface v6 From: Eric Farman To: Alex Williamson , Christoph Hellwig Cc: Kirti Wankhede , Tony Krowiak , Halil Pasic , Jason Herne , Matthew Rosato , Zhenyu Wang , Zhi Wang , Jason Gunthorpe , kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, intel-gvt-dev@lists.freedesktop.org, Vineeth Vijayan Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2022 13:49:14 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20220719092644.3db1ceee.alex.williamson@redhat.com> References: <20220709045450.609884-1-hch@lst.de> <20220718054348.GA22345@lst.de> <20220718153331.18a52e31.alex.williamson@redhat.com> <1f945ef0eb6c02079700a6785ca3dd9864096b82.camel@linux.ibm.com> <20220719144928.GB21431@lst.de> <20220719092644.3db1ceee.alex.williamson@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.28.5 (3.28.5-18.el8) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-TM-AS-GCONF: 00 X-Proofpoint-GUID: Dn5uPDe8IWbRDzWF36HVjzkxc3_B_8W4 X-Proofpoint-ORIG-GUID: OJ0MsdChTnXlcQ58NXzihtY1bVw0VG-q X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=baseguard engine=ICAP:2.0.205,Aquarius:18.0.883,Hydra:6.0.517,FMLib:17.11.122.1 definitions=2022-07-19_06,2022-07-19_01,2022-06-22_01 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=outbound_notspam policy=outbound score=0 priorityscore=1501 mlxscore=0 impostorscore=0 spamscore=0 suspectscore=0 adultscore=0 clxscore=1015 bulkscore=0 phishscore=0 malwarescore=0 mlxlogscore=999 lowpriorityscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.12.0-2206140000 definitions=main-2207190074 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2022-07-19 at 09:26 -0600, Alex Williamson wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jul 2022 16:49:28 +0200 > Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 10:01:40PM -0400, Eric Farman wrote: > > > I'll get the problem with struct subchannel [1] sorted out in the > > > next > > > couple of days. This series breaks vfio-ccw in its current form > > > (see > > > reply to patch 14), but even with that addressed the placement of > > > all > > > these other mdev structs needs to be handled differently. > > > > Alex, any preference if I should just fix the number instances > > checking > > with either an incremental patch or a resend, or wait for this ccw > > rework? > > Since it's the last patch, let's at least just respin that patch > rather > than break and fix. I'd like to make sure Eric is ok to shift around > structures as a follow-up or make a proposal how this series should > change though. I'd hoped to have that proposal today, but I don't have much confidence in it yet as this series (with the fix on the last patch) is still crashing my system. Will get something out as soon as I'm able. > Thanks, > > Alex >