linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RESEND v2 2/2] KVM: Pre-allocate 1 cpumask variable per cpu for both pv tlb and pv ipis

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Date:   Wed, 26 Feb 2020 14:26:58 +0100
From:   Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:     Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, kvm <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
        Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND v2 2/2] KVM: Pre-allocate 1 cpumask variable per
 cpu for both pv tlb and pv ipis

On 26/02/20 14:10, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
> Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com> writes:
> 
>> (putting Paolo in To: field, in case email filters are to blame.
>> Vitaly, maybe you could ping Paolo internally?)
>>
> 
> I could, but the only difference from what I'm doing right now would
> proabbly be the absence of non-@...aht.com emails in To/Cc: fields of
> this email :-)
>
> Do we want this fix for one of the last 5.6 RCs or 5.7 would be fine?
> Personally, I'd say we're not in a great hurry and 5.7 is OK.

I think we can do it for 5.6, but we're not in a great hurry. :)  The
rc4 pull request was already going to be relatively large and I had just
been scolded by Linus so I postponed this, but I am going to include it
this week.

Paolo