[PATCH 6/8] vmbus: remove unused low_latency option

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Wed Feb 15 15:23:29 UTC 2017


On Wed, 15 Feb 2017 15:05:18 +0000
KY Srinivasan <kys at microsoft.com> wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stephen Hemminger [mailto:stephen at networkplumber.org]
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2017 10:21 PM
> > To: KY Srinivasan <kys at microsoft.com>; Haiyan Yang
> > <haiyang at microsoft.com>
> > Cc: devel at linuxdriverproject.org; Stephen Hemminger
> > <sthemmin at microsoft.com>
> > Subject: [PATCH 6/8] vmbus: remove unused low_latency option
> > 
> > This was intended for future use, but since the code is currently unused (and
> > therefore dead and unused), remove it.
> > 
> > It can be restored when there is a use case.  
> 
> Stephen, I do have a use case for this. I wanted to get this into the Greg's tree and then
> Modify both netvsc and storvsc to use it. This is currently shipping as part of Clear Linux
> and makes a significant difference in the boot time on Hyper-V.
> 
> K. Y

Ok, I just saw it had been around since July (4.8) and still no usage




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