On 4/4/2018 11:09 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
On Wed, Apr 04, 2018 at 08:01:11PM -0700, Dennis Dalessandro wrote:
Hi Jason and Doug,
Here are most of our updates for 4.17. I will follow this up with a small 16B series then I still have a few more patches that are waiting on some more thorough testing. Should be able to get them on the list tomrrow or Friday at the latest, wanted to get these out now. I don't think anything is really that scary in here.
Probably not going to happen for 4.17.
As a general rule series that are not on the list before the merge window opens are not going to be make it. Linus discourages doing things at the last minute as it encourages bad behavior that reduces release quality.
I think that's a fine policy, and usually try to stick to that myself, but got behind this time by a couple days. To be fair though, I wouldn't call this last minute. There is still a week and a half of merge window. I do realize there is unfortunate timing with OFA falling in the middle of the merge window though.
In this specific case, Doug and I are both going to be at OFA next week so I'm not anticipating a 2nd pull request. I expect the only PR will go out on Friday.
I'll be there in Boulder as well so I'll see you guys then.
If any of these are super important for 4.17 (eg would go to -rc) then let me now and I can look at only those, and they need really good rc worthy commit messages.
That's fair, I can live with that. I'll sync up with my folks tomorrow but at this point I don't think any of this merit the -rc. The patches that are marked stable aren't really -rc material since we've lived with those issues for a while now. The core fix is in the same boat.
The 16B series can wait till 4.18. I do have one other series that fixes a pretty severe performance issue, I will post it when it's ready, but it's a bit more scary and I imagine will have to push off till 4.18 as well.
-Denny