From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-7.3 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, NICE_REPLY_A,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB5CEC433B4 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 2021 13:01:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lists.xenproject.org (lists.xenproject.org [192.237.175.120]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 44FA0613CD for ; Tue, 20 Apr 2021 13:01:11 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 44FA0613CD Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=xen.org Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=xen-devel-bounces@lists.xenproject.org Received: from list by lists.xenproject.org with outflank-mailman.113654.216591 (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lYpzu-0002I2-1L; Tue, 20 Apr 2021 13:00:58 +0000 X-Outflank-Mailman: Message body and most headers restored to incoming version Received: by outflank-mailman (output) from mailman id 113654.216591; Tue, 20 Apr 2021 13:00:58 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.xenproject.org) by lists.xenproject.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lYpzt-0002Hv-Uo; Tue, 20 Apr 2021 13:00:57 +0000 Received: by outflank-mailman (input) for mailman id 113654; Tue, 20 Apr 2021 13:00:56 +0000 Received: from mail.xenproject.org ([104.130.215.37]) by lists.xenproject.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lYpzs-0002Hq-Jt for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Tue, 20 Apr 2021 13:00:56 +0000 Received: from xenbits.xenproject.org ([104.239.192.120]) by mail.xenproject.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lYpzn-0001B4-P5; Tue, 20 Apr 2021 13:00:51 +0000 Received: from [54.239.6.187] (helo=a483e7b01a66.ant.amazon.com) by xenbits.xenproject.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lYpzn-0008HU-HR; Tue, 20 Apr 2021 13:00:51 +0000 X-BeenThere: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org List-Id: Xen developer discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xenproject.org Precedence: list Sender: "Xen-devel" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=xen.org; s=20200302mail; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:In-Reply-To: MIME-Version:Date:Message-ID:From:References:Cc:To:Subject; bh=GE7kMMQDC7qGfHnr7SeRoZrQd4ZsjTtrQTSkfnOkghM=; b=wK0PSINeZ0WYGg8xcxwDkOjM3s ZcRd/riZHN7WBK5zcOdxRZXsVajZ7tcZVCSdn5/ih86IFCMaoh1uXbDm+SXpzeQz853nj1J2YCm54 eYmd74SGoKLJRyW49KJzndANe3akk9nj6zj4wVE+n/Qn5blAV7T1L83IjcHTpWalDGno=; Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] VT-d: Don't assume register-based invalidation is always supported To: Jan Beulich Cc: Andrew Cooper , George Dunlap , Ian Jackson , Stefano Stabellini , Wei Liu , Kevin Tian , xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, Chao Gao References: <20200401200606.48752-1-chao.gao@intel.com> <148ad77f-d447-0800-d48b-9ba8c758b905@xen.org> <98da1bbb-8860-0728-a438-a4f12719d4e2@xen.org> <525fa57c-b036-7c2b-3a6d-ede7f4ce6d36@suse.com> From: Julien Grall Message-ID: <5f77d54a-6c92-84bb-a8a9-a0864b350f1f@xen.org> Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2021 14:00:49 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <525fa57c-b036-7c2b-3a6d-ede7f4ce6d36@suse.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 20/04/2021 13:50, Jan Beulich wrote: >> Alternatively, you could be a bit more >> verbose in your request so the other understand the reasoning behind it. > > Well, yes, perhaps. But then there's the desire to not repeat oneself > all the time. Most likely, the time you try to save not expanding your thought are going to be lost when the contributor will come back asking why you are requesting it. ;) Cheers, -- Julien Grall