linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8 00/11] Fix BUG_ON in vfio_iommu_group

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Message-ID: <20220408141747.GZ2120790@nvidia.com>
Date:   Fri, 8 Apr 2022 11:17:47 -0300
From:   Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
To:     Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>
Cc:     Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@...ux.intel.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>,
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        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@...el.com>,
        Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@...el.com>, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
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        Diana Craciun <diana.craciun@....nxp.com>,
        Cornelia Huck <cohuck@...hat.com>,
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        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
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        Jonathan Hunter <jonathanh@...dia.com>,
        Li Yang <leoyang.li@....com>,
        Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@...il.com>,
        iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
        kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 00/11] Fix BUG_ON in vfio_iommu_group_notifier()

On Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 04:00:31PM +0200, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 09:23:52AM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > Why rc3? It has been 4 weeks now with no futher comments.
>
> Because I start applying new code to branches based on -rc3. In the past
> I used different -rc's for the topic branches (usually the latest -rc
> available when I started applying to that branch), but that caused silly
> merge conflicts from time to time. So I am now basing every topic branch
> on the same -rc, which is usually -rc3. Rationale is that by -rc3 time
> the kernel should have reasonably stabilized after the merge window.

You might consider using a linear tree instead of the topic branches,
topics are tricky and I'm not sure it helps a small subsystem so much.
Conflicts between topics are a PITA for everyone, and it makes
handling conflicts with rc much harder than it needs to be.

At least I haven't felt a need for topics while running larger trees,
and would find it stressful to try and squeeze the entire patch flow
into only 3 weeks out of the 7 week cycle.

In any event, I'd like this on a branch so Alex can pull it too, I
guess it means Alex has to merge rc3 to VFIO as well?

Thanks for explaining

Jason