netdev - Re: [PATCH v4 00/12] remove msize limit in virtio transport

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Date:   Tue, 24 May 2022 10:10:31 +0200
From:   Nikolay Kichukov <nikolay@...um.net>
To:     Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@...ewreck.org>
Cc:     Christian Schoenebeck <linux_oss@...debyte.com>,
        v9fs-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@...il.com>,
        Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@...kov.net>,
        Greg Kurz <groug@...d.org>, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/12] remove msize limit in virtio transport

Hello Dominique,

On Mon, 2022-01-24 at 20:07 +0900, Dominique Martinet wrote:
> Nikolay Kichukov wrote on Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 11:21:08AM +0100:
> > It works, sorry for overlooking the 'known limitations' in the first
> > place. When do we expect these patches to be merged upstream?
> 
> We're just starting a new development cycle for 5.18 while 5.17 is
> stabilizing, so this mostly depends on the ability to check if a msize
> given in parameter is valid as described in the first "STILL TO DO"
> point listed in the cover letter.
> 
> I personally would be happy considering this series for this cycle
> with
> just a max msize of 4MB-8k and leave that further bump for later if
> we're sure qemu will handle it.
> We're still seeing a boost for that and the smaller buffers for small
> messages will benefit all transport types, so that would get in in
> roughly two months for 5.18-rc1, then another two months for 5.18 to
> actually be released and start hitting production code.
> 
> 
> I'm not sure when exactly but I'll run some tests with it as well and
> redo a proper code review within the next few weeks, so we can get
> this
> in -next for a little while before the merge window.
> 

Did you make it into 5.18? I see it just got released...