From:   "Maciej S. Szmigiero" <maciej.szmigiero@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5.5 00/30] KVM: Scalable memslots implementation
To:     Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Cc:     James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>,
        Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@arm.com>,
        Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>,
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On 09.11.2021 02:21, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 09, 2021, Maciej S. Szmigiero wrote:
>> On 04.11.2021 01:25, Sean Christopherson wrote:
>> By the way, do you want your patches and my non-invasive patches (patches
>> below number 23) merged without waiting for the rest of the series to be
>> fully ready?
>>
>> This way there is less risk of conflicting changes to KVM being merged
>> in meantime while we are still discussing the remaining patches.
>> Or worse - changes that don't conflict but subtly break some assumptions
>> that the code relies on.
>>
>> For this reason I am strongly for merging them independently from the
>> more invasive parts.
> 
> Merging them as soon as they're ready would also be my preference.  That said,
> I'm hoping we can get the entire implemenation queued up for 5.17 sooner than
> later.  I'll do my best to respond quickly to try and make that happen.
> 

Finished going through all the patches, with small nits they do make sense
to me - thanks Sean.

I will prepare an updated (and tested!) next version of this patch set,
however this may take about two+ weeks as I have other, more urgent work
to do right now.

Thanks,
Maciej