netdev - Re: [RFT 2/4] Add mod_timer

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Message-ID: <499C0014.6090308@trash.net>
Date:	Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:33:24 +0100
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CC:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, shemminger@...tta.com,
	rick.jones2@...com, dada1@...mosbay.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
	gandalf@...g.westbo.se, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFT 2/4] Add mod_timer_noact

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> In other words, the changelog is useless and even borderline 
> deceptive. Not a good sign if you are trying to get a patch 
> accepted to the kernel.
> 
> Furthermore, no performance figures were posted along with this 
> modification - it only stated that these are "performance 
> improvements". Especially in cases where a change slows down the 
> common case the showing of a very substantial performance 
> benefit is a must-have, before a patch is considered for 
> upstream merging.

I think this is mainly a misunderstanding, Stephen posted these
patches as RFT so Rick and Eric could do benchmarks, they were
not intended for merging at this time.

> In fact, the submission incorrectly stated:
> 
> | This patch set is against Patrick's netfilter next tree since
> | it is where it should end up.
> |      
> | git.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kaber/nf-next-2.6.git
> 
> This is wrong, the "netfilter next tree" is not where the "Add 
> mod_timer_noact" change should end up, and you should ask your 
> contributors to submit changes to other subsystems to their 
> respective maintainer trees - the timer tree in this case.

Absolutely, I wouldn't have taken it, and Dave wouldn't have taken
it from me, so no cause for alarm :)


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