On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 01:59:02PM -0500, Ben Romer wrote:
> On 11/17/2015 05:18 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> >On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 09:57:58AM -0500, Benjamin Romer wrote:
> >>This patch series adds a centralized infrastructure and device support
> >>for channel interrupts sent to s-Par virtual devices. With these changes,
> >>the visorhba device is ~80% faster than with only polling, and visornic
> >>receives a speedup of over 3500% (from ~9Mb/s to between 360Mb/s and
> >>390Mb/s).
> >
> >Why are you adding new functions to the code before it is merged out of
> >staging?  Please don't do that, please get the code out of staging
> >first.
> >
> >thanks,
> >
> >greg k-h
> >
> 
> Hi Greg,
> 
> Interrupt support was originally part of the driver set when we submitted
> it, but we removed it when we renamed the drivers and restructured the set.
> The work was listed in the TODO so I thought it would be okay to patch it in
> staging, but if we should wait until the drivers are out, then we will wait.
> :)

Well, it might be, but as you didn't say that in the changelog here, how
was I supposed to remember that?  :)

> Do you think our drivers are clean enough to be moved out soon? None of the
> files generate checkpatch errors anymore (the one in visorhba_main was
> discussed before and decided to be okay). There are 7 files that generate
> warnings still, controlvmchannel.h being the biggest offender, with the rest
> all in single digits.
> 
> I'll get those warnings cleaned up - are there other things you'd like us to
> fix?

That's a great first-step, after that, we can do an audit of the code,
but please do all of the "easy things" first.

thanks,

greg k-h
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