linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 00/13] KVM: Scalable memslots implementation

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Message-ID: <YXB0yHIdyeZA1kIb@google.com>
Date:   Wed, 20 Oct 2021 19:58:00 +0000
From:   Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
To:     "Maciej S. Szmigiero" <mail@...iej.szmigiero.name>
Cc:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Igor Mammedov <imammedo@...hat.com>,
        Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>,
        James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
        Julien Thierry <julien.thierry.kdev@...il.com>,
        Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>,
        Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@...nel.org>,
        Aleksandar Markovic <aleksandar.qemu.devel@...il.com>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...abs.org>,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
        Janosch Frank <frankja@...ux.ibm.com>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Cornelia Huck <cohuck@...hat.com>,
        Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 00/13] KVM: Scalable memslots implementation

On Wed, Oct 20, 2021, Maciej S. Szmigiero wrote:
> On 20.10.2021 00:07, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> I have always used the chronological order but your argument about
> reviewers being able to quickly see the delta makes sense - will switch
> to having the latest changes on the top in the next version.
> 
> By the way, looking at the current https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ at the
> time I am writing this, while most of v3+ submissions are indeed
> using the "latest on the top" order, some aren't:
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210813145302.3933-1-kevin3.tang@gmail.com/T/
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211015024658.1353987-1-xianting.tian@linux.alibaba.com/T/
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YW%2Fq70dLyF+YudyF@T590/T/ (this one uses a
> hybrid approach - current version changes on the top, remaining changeset
> in chronological order).

Some people are heathens that have yet to be enlightened.  Rest assured I'll do
plenty of prosthelytizing should they ever post to arch/x86/kvm ;-)