Re: [PATCH 0/6] isolation: 1Hz residual tick offloading v5

From: Frederic Weisbecker
Date: Sat Feb 10 2018 - 05:24:47 EST


On Fri, Feb 09, 2018 at 08:00:06AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
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> * Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > sched/isolation: Residual 1Hz scheduler tick offload
> > sched/isolation: Tick offload documentation
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> Please try to start each title with a verb.
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> [ ... and preferably not by prepending 'do' ;-) ]
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> Beyond making changelogs more consistent, this will actually also add real
> information to the title, because, for example, any of these possible variants:
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> sched/isolation: Fix tick offload documentation
> sched/isolation: Update tick offload documentation
> sched/isolation: Add tick offload documentation
> sched/isolation: Remove tick offload documentation
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> sched/isolation: Fix residual 1Hz scheduler tick offload
> sched/isolation: Update residual 1Hz scheduler tick offload
> sched/isolation: Introduce residual 1Hz scheduler tick offload
> sched/isolation: Remove residual 1Hz scheduler tick offload
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> will tell us _a lot more_ about the nature of the changes from the shortlog alone!

Good point, I get strange habits over the years.

Thanks.