netdev - Re: [PATCH mlx5-next 0/5] Improve mlx5 live migration driver

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Date:   Wed, 4 May 2022 16:48:17 -0600
From:   Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>
To:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
Cc:     Yishai Hadas <yishaih@...dia.com>, saeedm@...dia.com,
        kvm@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, kuba@...nel.org,
        leonro@...dia.com, maorg@...dia.com, cohuck@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH mlx5-next 0/5] Improve mlx5 live migration driver

On Wed, 4 May 2022 18:33:09 -0300
Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com> wrote:

> On Wed, May 04, 2022 at 02:19:19PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> 
> > > This may go apparently via your tree as a PR from mlx5-next once you'll 
> > > be fine with.  
> > 
> > As Jason noted, the net/mlx5 changes seem confined to the 2nd patch,
> > which has no other dependencies in this series.  Is there something
> > else blocking committing that via the mlx tree and providing a branch
> > for the remainder to go in through the vfio tree?  Thanks,  
> 
> Our process is to not add dead code to our non-rebasing branches until
> we have an ack on the consumer patches.
> 
> So you can get a PR from Leon with everything sorted out including the
> VFIO bits, or you can get a PR from Leon with just the shared branch,
> after you say OK.

As long as Leon wants to wait for some acks in the former case, I'm fine
with either, but I don't expect to be able to shoot down the premise of
the series.  You folks are the experts how your device works and there
are no API changes on the vfio side for me to critique here.  Thanks,

Alex