linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 7/7] vfio/type1: Remove map_try

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Message-ID: <20181115155522.ukxnskxiqcoqxw3d@8bytes.org>
Date:   Thu, 15 Nov 2018 16:55:22 +0100
From:   Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>
To:     Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>
Cc:     iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jroedel@...e.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] vfio/type1: Remove map_try_harder() code path

Hi Alex,

On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 09:23:29AM -0700, Alex Williamson wrote:
> Cool, glad to see this finally fixed.  My "should be fixed soon"
> comment turned out to be a little optimistic with the fix finally
> coming 5 years later.  We could of course keep this code as it really
> doesn't harm anything, but I'm in favor trying to remove it if we think
> it's dead now.

Yeah, it took a while to fix that :) And we can easily revert this patch
if it turns out someone else is also relying on the workaround.

> In order to expedite into one pull:
> 
> Acked-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>

Thanks a lot. I've queued these patches into my tree now.


Regards,

	Joerg