Re: [PATCH v6 0/4] mm: introduce THP deferred setting

[Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>]

Fundamentally I trust you to make sure this all goes correctly so let's not
belabour the point or delay things here :)

So in that vein, Nico - I would sugesst for future respins adding a really
clear bit to the header as David suggested :) also update the cover letter
tests so it isn't reliant on a possibly ephemeral web link.

But otherwise let's proceed as was.

On Wed, May 21, 2025 at 02:24:45PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> > >
> > > Anyhow, to me the dependency is obvious, but I've followed the MM meeting
> > > discussions, development etc.
> >
> > Right but is it clear to Andrew? I mean the cover letter was super unclear
> > to me.
>
> I mean, assuming that it would not be clear to Andrew (and I think it is
> clear to Andrew), I we would get CCed on these emails and could immediately
> scream STOOOOOP :)
>
> And until this would hit mm-stable, a bit more time would pass.
>
> >
> > What's to prevent things getting merged out of order?
>
> Fortunately, there are still people working here and not machines (at least,
> that's what I hope).

Obligatory link to this :P

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lsExRvJTAI

>
> > And do people 'just
> > have to remember' to resend?
>
> Yes, in this case Nico wants to get his stuff upstream and must drive it
> once the dependencies are met IMHO.
>
> >
> > If there's a requirement related to the ordering of these series it really
> > has to be expressed very clearly.
>
> Jup. I'll note that for now there was no strict rule what to tag as RFC and
> what not that I know of. Of course, if people send broken, half-implemented,
> untested ... crap, it should *clearly* be RFC.
>
> People should be spelling out dependencies in any case (especially for
> non-RFC versions) clearly.
>
> I'll note that even if there would be a rule, I'm afraid we don't have a
> good place to document it (and not sure if people would find it or even try
> finding it ...) :/

Yeah... :)

>
> A big problem is when some subsystems have their own rules for how to handle
> such things. That causes major pain for contributors ...

Yeah, I wish there was something more general.

>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> David / dhildenb
>

Cheers, Lorenzo