Re: [PATCH vhost 2/2] vdpa/mlx5: Fix suboptimal range on iotlb iteration

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Wed, Nov 13, 2024 at 03:33:35PM +0100, Dragos Tatulea wrote:
> 
> 
> On 13.11.24 07:32, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 21, 2024 at 04:40:40PM +0300, Dragos Tatulea wrote:
> >> From: Si-Wei Liu <si-wei.liu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> The starting iova address to iterate iotlb map entry within a range
> >> was set to an irrelevant value when passing to the itree_next()
> >> iterator, although luckily it doesn't affect the outcome of finding
> >> out the granule of the smallest iotlb map size. Fix the code to make
> >> it consistent with the following for-loop.
> >>
> >> Fixes: 94abbccdf291 ("vdpa/mlx5: Add shared memory registration code")
> > 
> > 
> > But the cover letter says "that's why it does not have a fixes tag".
> > Confused.
> Sorry about that. Patch is fine with fixes tag, I forgot to drop that
> part of the sentence from the cover letter.
> 
> Let me know if I need to resend something.
> 
> Thanks,
> Dragos

But why does it need the fixes tag? That one means "if you have
that hash, you need this patch". Pls do not abuse it for
optimizations.