Re: [PATCH v7 net-next 0/9] virtio: introduce GSO over UDP tunnel

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On 7/8/25 6:43 PM, Paolo Abeni wrote:
> On 7/8/25 6:00 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 08, 2025 at 08:24:04AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
>>> On Tue, 8 Jul 2025 11:01:30 -0400 Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>>>>> git@xxxxxxxxxx:pabeni/linux-devel.git virtio_udp_tunnel_07_07_2025
>>>>>
>>>>> The first 5 patches in this series, that is, the virtio features
>>>>> extension bits are also available at [2]:
>>>>>
>>>>> git@xxxxxxxxxx:pabeni/linux-devel.git virtio_features_extension_07_07_2025
>>>>>
>>>>> Ideally the virtio features extension bit should go via the virtio tree
>>>>> and the virtio_net/tun patches via the net-next tree. The latter have
>>>>> a dependency in the first and will cause conflicts if merged via the
>>>>> virtio tree, both when applied and at merge window time - inside Linus
>>>>> tree.
>>>>>
>>>>> To avoid such conflicts and duplicate commits I think the net-next
>>>>> could pull from [1], while the virtio tree could pull from [2].  
>>>>
>>>> Or I could just merge all of this in my tree, if that's ok
>>>> with others?
>>>
>>> No strong preference here. My first choice would be a branch based
>>> on v6.16-rc5 so we can all pull in and resolve the conflicts that
>>> already exist. But I haven't looked how bad the conflicts would 
>>> be for virtio if we did that. On net-next side they look manageable.
>>
>> OK, let's do it the way Paolo wants then.
> 
> I actually messed a bit with my proposal, as I forgot I need to use a
> common ancestor for the branches I shared.
> 
> git@xxxxxxxxxx:pabeni/linux-devel.git virtio_features_extension_07_07_2025
> 
> is based on current net-next and pulling from such tag will take a lot
> of unwanted stuff into the vhost tree.
> 
> @Michael: AFAICS the current vhost devel tree is based on top of
> v6.15-rc7, am I correct?

Which in turn means that you rebase your tree (before sending the PR to
Linus), am I correct? If so we can't have stable hashes shared between
net-next and vhost.

/P





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