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

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Date:   Thu, 24 Jun 2021 00:39:42 +0100
From:   Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@...il.com>
To:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        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 11:24 PM, Jens Axboe wrote:
> 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.

Ok, good to know. I was finding splitting more convenient
as a default option, easier with b4, more confidence that
they apply to the right branch and so on

-- 
Pavel Begunkov