linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 035/111] ipv6/icmp: l3mdev: Perform icmp error route lookup on source device routing table (v2)

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Message-ID: <20201019155028.GC4060117@sasha-vm>
Date:   Mon, 19 Oct 2020 11:50:28 -0400
From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 035/111] ipv6/icmp: l3mdev: Perform icmp
 error route lookup on source device routing table (v2)

On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 08:33:27AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
>On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 07:52:36 -0400 Sasha Levin wrote:
>> On Sun, Oct 18, 2020 at 07:40:12PM -0600, David Ahern wrote:
>> >On 10/18/20 1:40 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
>> >> This one got applied a few days ago, and the urgency is low so it may be
>> >> worth letting it see at least one -rc release ;)
>> >
>> >agreed
>>
>> Definitely - AUTOSEL patches get extra soaking time before getting
>> queued up. This is more of a request to make sure it's not doing
>> anything silly.
>
>Could you put a number on "extra soaking time"?
>
>I'm asking mostly out of curiosity :)

The AUTOSEL process adds at least another week into the flow, this means
that the fastest this patch will go in into a released kernel is about 2
weeks from now.

-- 
Thanks,
Sasha