Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/2] block/xen-blkfront: Handle non-indirect grant with 64KB pages

From	Julien Grall <julien.grall@citrix.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/2] block/xen-blkfront: Handle non-indirect grant with 64KB pages
Date	2015-10-19 13:40 +0200
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On 19/10/15 12:16, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> At this point I don't think it's worth implementing it, if you feel like
> doing that later in order to improve performance that would be fine, but
> I don't think it should be required in order to get this merged.

I would rather avoid to improve performance in the frontend and
encourage people to implement indirect descriptor in their backend.

It would be more beneficial for any block frontend (x86, arm, 4K pages,
64K pages...).

> I think you had to resend the patch anyway to fix some comments, but
> apart from that:

Note that I'm planning to update the commit message to summarize my
previous mail.

> Acked-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>

Thank you, I will try to resend a new version today.

Regards,

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Julien Grall
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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/2] block/xen-blkfront: Handle non-indirect  grant with 64KB pages Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com> - 2015-10-19 13:20 +0200
  Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/2] block/xen-blkfront: Handle non-indirect  grant with 64KB pages Julien Grall <julien.grall@citrix.com> - 2015-10-19 13:40 +0200

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