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Date:   Tue, 27 Oct 2020 16:11:06 +0100
From:   Vincent Whitchurch <vincent.whitchurch@axis.com>
To:     Sherry Sun <sherry.sun@nxp.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 2/4] misc: vop: do not allocate and reassign the used
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On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 08:05:43AM +0100, Sherry Sun wrote:
> Can you help test the patch about removing the codes of reassign used
> ring, and comment on the impact for Intel MIC platform?  Thanks for
> any help.

I don't have access to MIC hardware myself, either.

But this patch is quite certainly going to break it since guests using a
kernel without the patch will not work with hosts with a kernel with the
patch.