linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V6 0/4] x86/resctrl: Enable user to view and select thread throttling mode

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Date:   Wed, 20 May 2020 10:32:02 -0700
From:   Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:     tglx@...utronix.de, fenghua.yu@...el.com, tony.luck@...el.com,
        kuo-lang.tseng@...el.com, ravi.v.shankar@...el.com,
        mingo@...hat.com, babu.moger@....com, hpa@...or.com,
        x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V6 0/4] x86/resctrl: Enable user to view and select thread
 throttling mode

Hi Borislav,

On 5/20/2020 12:11 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 03:13:59PM -0700, Reinette Chatre wrote:
>> I am very sorry. I was hoping that this series could be considered for
>> inclusion into v5.8 and submitted it seven weeks ago because of that.
>> The recent feedback addressed seemed to be the final few small comments
>> needed to be ready for inclusion and I was afraid that waiting long to
>> address this would cause me to miss opportunity to be considered for
>> inclusion since we are already at rc6.
> 
> That's understandable but does it really matter when it goes in? If not
> in 5.8, then 5.9. I.e., there's always a next kernel.
> 
> So why the hurry?
> 

I was told that these enhancements really needed to get into v5.8,
otherwise the OSV intercepts will be much further out. Certainly not of
concern to you and not your problem, I am just answering your question
as an explanation for my goal for inclusion into v5.8.

It seems inappropriate that I have the title of maintainer and not be
able to have patches considered for inclusion during an entire release
cycle. I completely understand that you are under tremendous load and
expect that you have an incredible amount of things demanding your
attention. I was wrong to expect a higher level of visibility of these
patches and I am sorry that I spammed you with this patchset.

Reinette