Re: [PATCH -v5 00/17] Rewrite x86/ftrace to use text_poke (and more)

[Alexei Starovoitov]

On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 09:42:43PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 11:47:28AM -0800, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> 
> > Some of the patches I think are split too fine. I would have combined them, but
> > we try hard to limit our sets to less than fifteen in bpf/netdev land fwiw.
> 
> Yeah, the series is getting too long (in fact I have a whole pile more).
> 
> I tend to try and not re-arrange a series if I don't have to in order to
> avoid breaking things by accident when shuffling them around. But yes, I
> could avoid some things by folding and re-ordering.
> 
> Dunno, maybe if I'm forced to do another round :/

I would just land what you already have and keep iterating on top if necessary.
The core pieces were ready back in August. There is always some room for
improvement. Your other static_call set can also land now. I'd like to play
with it too.