Re: [patch V2 00/46] x86, PCI, XEN, genirq ...: Prepare for device MSI

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Wed Sep 30 2020 - 14:11:47 EST


Megha,

On Wed, Sep 30 2020 at 10:25, Megha Dey wrote:
> On 9/30/2020 8:20 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>>>> Your IMS patches? Why do you need something special again?
>
> By IMS patches, I meant your IMS driver patch that was updated (as it
> was untested, it had some compile errors and we removed the IMS_QUEUE
> parts) :

Ok.

> The whole patchset can be found here:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/f4a085f1-f6de-2539-12fe-c7308d243a4a@xxxxxxxxx/
>
> It would be great if you could review the IMS patches :)

It somehow slipped through the cracks. I'll have a look.

> We were hoping to get IMS in the 5.10 merge window :)

Hope dies last, right?

>>> We might be able to put together a mockup just to prove it
>> If that makes Megha's stuff going that would of course be appreciated,
>> but we can defer the IMS_QUEUE part for later. It's orthogonal to the
>> IMS_ARRAY stuff.
>
> In our patch series, we have removed the IMS_QUEUE stuff and retained
> only the IMS_ARRAY parts > as that was sufficient for us.

That works. We can add that back when Jason has his puzzle pieces
sorted.

Thanks,

tglx