netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v5 1/4] bpf: add helper bpf_perf_event_read

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Message-ID: <56191a53-33cf-c1b3-e482-9d575bafb0ef@fb.com>
Date:   Mon, 25 Sep 2017 08:41:04 -0700
From:   Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>
To:     Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, <peterz@...radead.org>
CC:     <rostedt@...dmis.org>, <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <kernel-team@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v5 1/4] bpf: add helper bpf_perf_event_read_value
 for perf event array map



On 9/21/17 8:15 AM, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> On 9/20/17 4:07 PM, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
>> Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 19:26:51 +0200
>>
>>> Dave, could we have this in a topic tree of sorts, because I have a
>>> pending series to rework all the timekeeping and it might be nice to not
>>> have sfr run into all sorts of conflicts.
>>
>> If you want to merge it into your tree that's fine.
>>
>> But it means that any further development done on top of this
>> work will need to go via you as well.
> 
> can we merge this set of patches into both net-next and tip ?
> We did such tricks in the past to avoid merge conflicts and
> everything went fine during merge window.

Hi, Peter,

Any suggestion for merging this patch? Alexei's idea sounds
reasonable?

Thanks,

Yonghong