Re: [PATCH v9 00/24] Speculative page faults

From: Laurent Dufour
Date: Fri Apr 13 2018 - 09:34:51 EST


On 14/03/2018 14:11, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Tue 13-03-18 18:59:30, Laurent Dufour wrote:
>> Changes since v8:
>> - Don't check PMD when locking the pte when THP is disabled
>> Thanks to Daniel Jordan for reporting this.
>> - Rebase on 4.16
>
> Is this really worth reposting the whole pile? I mean this is at v9,
> each doing little changes. It is quite tiresome to barely get to a
> bookmarked version just to find out that there are 2 new versions out.
>
> I am sorry to be grumpy and I can understand some frustration it doesn't
> move forward that easilly but this is a _big_ change. We should start
> with a real high level review rather than doing small changes here and
> there and reach v20 quickly.

I know this would mean v10, but there has been a bunch of reviews from David
Rientjes and Jerome Glisse, and I had to make many changes to address them.
So I think this is time to push a v10.

If you have already started a review of this v9 series, please send me your
remarks so that I can compile them in this v10 asap.

Thanks,
Laurent.