Re: [PATCH v5 00/11] x86,fs/resctrl: Fix long-standing issues

From: Borislav Petkov

Date: Wed Jun 10 2026 - 19:11:35 EST


On Wed, Jun 10, 2026 at 01:34:43PM -0700, Reinette Chatre wrote:
> Thank you very much Boris. Apologies if I implied so but I really did not
> expect nor want this to make it into the upcoming merge window. Especially
> after learning about Linus's comment [1] about fixes for long-standing
> issues not being appropriate late in the cycle (with v5 already considered
> late).

Right. Nothing to worry about, we do pay attention to how critical the fixes
are we send during the stabilization phase.

> Considering the changes in locking I do instead hope that this work could
> percolate on x86/cache for a while before moving further. To support this
> I hope to get few more acks by the time x86/cache can accept new changes.
> I should have made this clear.

All good. I think in a couple of weeks, when we have -rc1, I can queue yours
and then they'll get the longest exposure in linux-next so that should be
good testing.

Thx.

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Boris.

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