linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] msi-x: let drivers retry when not enough vectors

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Message-ID: <20090508002240.GA30192@linux.intel.com>
Date:	Thu, 7 May 2009 17:22:40 -0700
From:	Matthew Wilcox <willy@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Cc:	virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	Sheng Yang <sheng@...ux.intel.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] msi-x: let drivers retry when not enough vectors

On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 09:25:00AM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote:
> Sheng is absolutely right, that's a horrid API.

But the API already exists, and is in use by 27 drivers.  If this were a
change to the API, I'd be against it, but it is the existing API.

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