Re: [PATCH v5 00/10] Support using MSI interrupts in ntb_transport

From: Logan Gunthorpe
Date: Thu Jun 13 2019 - 11:51:52 EST




On 2019-06-13 7:30 a.m., Jon Mason wrote:
> On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 04:30:50PM -0600, Logan Gunthorpe wrote:
>> This is another resend as there has been no feedback since v4.
>> Seems Jon has been MIA this past cycle so hopefully he appears on the
>> list soon.
>>
>> I've addressed the feedback so far and rebased on the latest kernel
>> and would like this to be considered for merging this cycle.
>>
>> The only outstanding issue I know of is that it still will not work
>> with IDT hardware, but ntb_transport doesn't work with IDT hardware
>> and there is still no sensible common infrastructure to support
>> ntb_peer_mw_set_trans(). Thus, I decline to consider that complication
>> in this patchset. However, I'll be happy to review work that adds this
>> feature in the future.
>>
>> Also, as the port number and resource index stuff is a bit complicated,
>> I made a quick out of tree test fixture to ensure it's correct[1]. As
>> an excerise I also wrote some test code[2] using the upcomming KUnit
>> feature.
>
> Sorry for the delay. The patch is now in the ntb-next branch. We've
> missed window for 5.2, but it will be in the 5.3 pull request (barring
> last minute comments).

Thanks Jon!

Logan