linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] io_uring: Create define to modify a SQPOLL parameter

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Message-ID: <6a566122-c4b2-6594-cc94-c578988d3f80@kernel.dk>
Date:   Wed, 23 Jun 2021 16:24:01 -0600
From:   Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:     Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@...il.com>,
        Olivier Langlois <olivier@...llion01.com>,
        io-uring@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] io_uring: Create define to modify a SQPOLL
 parameter

On 6/23/21 4:14 PM, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
> On 6/23/21 7:50 PM, Olivier Langlois wrote:
>> The magic number used to cap the number of entries extracted from an
>> io_uring instance SQ before moving to the other instances is an
>> interesting parameter to experiment with.
>>
>> A define has been created to make it easy to change its value from a
>> single location.
> 
> It's better to send fixes separately from other improvements,
> because the process a bit different for them, go into different
> branches and so on.

It's not a huge problem even if they go to different branches,
for these I'd be more comfortable doing 5.14 anyway and that
makes it even less of a concern.

-- 
Jens Axboe