From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 365DC3FFACF for ; Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:08:55 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1774458536; cv=none; b=AXUJXpDumjSGMzWNTSmRj5DnCheNrDIAsZv8v867jC2slwfxv3NNoLbG3eC36AMrE1FtwNrOpvUUYBZlHmofpHIc+nRQ4ghRlHiWtkRoQPMrbliPwDbhWTrih/gK4rEpNExx2Ici6df5zQwKUj/WrVMMs12qDcz25i9Hz9x7qY4= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1774458536; c=relaxed/simple; bh=xvg9oYhWMrrgWgxopkhQLs2ebX3H/C408lUVcS0/G2Q=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=H7q3XOEMDDC/EjBL3oWSDr3C2JklML/+U9Guj/lsV30RpBlfys2pVazpqsEXbWVqHMnC8n+LgITCXpBqLrMu3poM4uqK9cgFfYANj1RKHzBZfLi+bEgeUhp9gUHYmeqe5JygT03vu9EMCOqylsxGPqylPK9kEUfrZjBZnmltf8w= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=rGSQfdk4; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="rGSQfdk4" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AE2DDC19423; Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:08:52 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1774458535; bh=xvg9oYhWMrrgWgxopkhQLs2ebX3H/C408lUVcS0/G2Q=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=rGSQfdk4kl61AAInBU9OuNy4wPAO6DTWVVt0j4+pTxfwJHromGBVSecfN37A1R4X5 WgyNWJwzvA5QZk0QkOnfhLErtluNvgAcgQgitXe6QVa4qUEzmRKM1pyHbvYUmxJoz2 w3vZNy7RhCjDh9oJ3T12u+l0G5hw4FQP63W6zTCYFA0FNaDMFHHpBD+w62ltSQngNa 6Ts8uQKa93JaWwz0uswV9SvsUdr0G0P9VBlZTRoUPTSo8e1yMR5t/ofsNQ+8TGdTLI rZc7VLudyYxwBS2PGi0sHo5l8WeP13iPUFy3lEnM0p0NlXwismzKpT24W+LMP+aozN Z+ST+Cpe8Vf2A== Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:08:50 +0000 From: "Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)" To: Vernon Yang Cc: Andrew Morton , "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" , Wei Yang , lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com, ziy@nvidia.com, dev.jain@arm.com, baohua@kernel.org, lance.yang@linux.dev, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Vernon Yang Subject: Re: [PATCH mm-new v8 2/4] mm: khugepaged: refine scan progress number Message-ID: <8c746bad-3af3-45cf-b110-2c7103fdd44f@lucifer.local> References: <1da56bbb-9211-42d7-9b08-3ee56d2b538d@kernel.org> <8a5277e0-d70e-4849-9763-ed90e350a118@kernel.org> <22dccc17-787c-448e-a571-23c7a9afeaff@lucifer.local> <20260325080930.a205fca9e7e61c4a793f5228@linux-foundation.org> <3cf94628-3c6a-43ed-9fc1-29bd5a911497@kernel.org> <8d2e809c-e4c8-4d35-a2ae-62777b6dfbcc@lucifer.local> <0437ad42-612e-461f-906d-6757eb19a8de@kernel.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: On Thu, Mar 26, 2026 at 01:00:23AM +0800, Vernon Yang wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2026 at 11:23 PM David Hildenbrand (Arm) > wrote: > > > > On 3/25/26 16:20, Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2026 at 04:17:21PM +0100, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote: > > >> On 3/25/26 16:09, Andrew Morton wrote: > > >>> > > >> > > >> +1, I could have sworn we brought that up before. :) > > >> > > >>> > > >>> Oh. I've never really received that message, at least not at all > > >>> clearly. > > >>> > > >>> I've been hoping that the -fix patches are actually pro-reviewer, for > > >>> those reviewers who have looked at the previous version. A full resend > > >>> of something you've already looked at is quite annoying! > > >>> > > >>> I try to mitigate that by sending the > > >>> heres-what-you-changed-since-last-time replies. It's a little more > > >>> work at this end, but that's not at all a problem. > > >>> > > >>> I see a couple of options here > > >>> > > >>> a) I can fold the -fix into the base patch then send out the > > >>> resulting diff as a reply-to-all. > > >>> > > >>> b) We can just deprecate the -fix things and ask people for full > > >>> resends. > > >>> > > >>> It depends on what people prefer. How do we determine that? > > >> > > >> I like "fix" for smaller "obvious" stuff where a resend is really just > > >> noise. > > >> > > >> But for bigger stuff I prefer a full resend (we can still have these > > >> temporary fixups, but for reviewers a follow-up resend is better). > > Yeah, I completely agree with this policy. > > Initially, I thought it was just cleanup without functional changes, but > I didn't consider the new reviewers (haven't seen the previous version). > Sorry. > > Although this patchset is already in the mm-stable branch, if we want to > resend V9 version, I'd be happy to do so. Please let me know. Thanks! There's no need don't worry :) this isn't about your series, just a general point. Thanks, Lorenzo