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Message-ID: <5624D5BF.7020605@citrix.com>
Date:	Mon, 19 Oct 2015 12:36:31 +0100
From:	Julien Grall <julien.grall@...rix.com>
To:	Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@...rix.com>,
	<xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org>
CC:	Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
	<stefano.stabellini@...citrix.com>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<ian.campbell@...rix.com>, David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/2] block/xen-blkfront: Handle non-indirect
 grant with 64KB pages

On 19/10/15 12:16, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> At this point I don't think it's worth implementing it, if you feel like
> doing that later in order to improve performance that would be fine, but
> I don't think it should be required in order to get this merged.

I would rather avoid to improve performance in the frontend and
encourage people to implement indirect descriptor in their backend.

It would be more beneficial for any block frontend (x86, arm, 4K pages,
64K pages...).

> I think you had to resend the patch anyway to fix some comments, but
> apart from that:

Note that I'm planning to update the commit message to summarize my
previous mail.

> Acked-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@...rix.com>

Thank you, I will try to resend a new version today.

Regards,

-- 
Julien Grall
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