SRU: [Lucid] KVM: add schedule check to napi_enable call

Ken Stailey kstailey at yahoo.com
Tue Feb 8 21:35:24 UTC 2011



--- On Tue, 2/8/11, Bruce Rogers <brogers at novell.com> wrote:

> From: Bruce Rogers <brogers at novell.com>
> Subject: Re: SRU: [Lucid] KVM: add schedule check to napi_enable call
> To: "Ken Stailey" <kstailey at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "Stefan Bader" <stefan.bader at canonical.com>, kernel-team at lists.ubuntu.com
> Date: Tuesday, February 8, 2011, 1:24 PM
>  >>> On 2/7/2011 at 09:23
> AM, Ken Stailey <kstailey at yahoo.com>
> wrote: 
> > Hi Bruce,
> > 
> > I would like to thank you for your contribution to
> virtio-net, specifically 
> > the "[PATCH] KVM: add schedule check to napi_enable
> call" as it appears to 
> > stabilize virtio-net on Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 LTS.
> > 
> > Stefan Bader is curious to know why that patch is not
> appearing in upstream 
> > linux kernels.  Can you offer any explanation?
> > 
> > Thank you,
> > Ken Stailey
> > 
> 
> I thought it had gone upstream, but apparently not. I was
> working with Greg K.H. on this and it must have fallen
> through the cracks between the two of us.
> 
> I apologize for not following through with that better.
> 
> Bruce
> 

Thank you very much for looking into this issue.

Ken





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