Re: [PATCH 7.2 v10 0/2] skip redundant sync IPIs when TLB flush sent them

From: Andrew Morton

Date: Fri Apr 24 2026 - 10:35:19 EST


On Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:20:55 +0200 "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 4/24/26 16:15, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:37:04 +0000 Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> On 04-24 06:30, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Sashiko questions:
> >>> https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260424062528.71951-1-lance.yang@xxxxxxxxx
> >>>
> >>> (I never know if my Sashiko emails are welcome/useful. Maybe Sashiko
> >>> said the same stuff about v9 and it's all wrong. But better safe than
> >>> sorry!)
> >>
> >> These emails are helpful; but, I do not believe you should have to
> >> manually follow up with a link to every new patch series.
> >>
> >> Perhaps Sashiko could automatically send a summary email in response to
> >> the cover letter, or provide a link once the reviews are complete. For
> >> the kexec ML, we opted-in with Roman to receive automated emails from
> >> sashiko.
> >
> > Yep. I'd be OK with an automatic reply-to-all. Maybe some won't like
> > that.
> >
> > An alternative I've discussed with Roman is an automated
> > reply-to-author with a cc to a dedicated list (we could use mm-commits
> > for now).
> >
> > Preferences?
>
> Reply-to-author would likely be better as a first step.

Why do you think so?

Pasha, is it too early to determine how reply-to-all is working out for
kexec?