netdev - Re: [PATCH v4 RESEND] epoll: use refcount to reduce ep

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Date:   Wed, 8 Mar 2023 10:40:54 -0800
From:   Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@...gle.com>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@...hat.com>,
        Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>,
        Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 RESEND] epoll: use refcount to reduce ep_mutex
 contention

On Wed, 08 Mar 2023 09:55:31 +0100 Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com> wrote:

> I have a process question: I understand this is queued for the mm-
> nonmm-unstable branch. Should I send a v5 with the above comments
> changes or an incremental patch or something completely different?

Either is OK.  If it's a v5 I'll usually queue a delta so people who
have a;ready reviewed can see what changed.  That delta is later
squashed and I'll use v5's changelog for the whole.