linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL for 4.14 015/161] printk: Add console owner and waiter logic to load balance console writes

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Message-ID: <20180416093058.6edca0bb@gandalf.local.home>
Date:   Mon, 16 Apr 2018 09:30:58 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Sasha Levin <Alexander.Levin@...rosoft.com>
Cc:     Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        "stable@...r.kernel.org" <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "akpm@...ux-foundation.org" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
        Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>,
        Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@....com>,
        Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL for 4.14 015/161] printk: Add console owner and
 waiter logic to load balance console writes

On Sun, 15 Apr 2018 14:42:51 +0000
Sasha Levin <Alexander.Levin@...rosoft.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 09, 2018 at 10:22:46AM +0200, Petr Mladek wrote:
> >PS: I wonder how much time you give people to react before releasing
> >this. The number of autosel mails is increasing and I am involved
> >only in very small amount of them. I wonder if some other people
> >gets overwhelmed by this.  
> 
> My review cycle gives at least a week, and there's usually another week
> until Greg releases them.
> 
> I know it's a lot of mails, but in reality it's a lot of commits that
> should go in -stable.
> 
> Would a different format for review would make it easier?

I wonder if the "AUTOSEL" patches should at least have an "ack-by" from
someone before they are pulled in. Otherwise there may be some subtle
issues that can find their way into stable releases.

-- Steve