Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] Avoid requesting page from DMA zone when no managed pages

Baoquan He
2021-12-14T00:35:33Z

On 12/13/21 at 01:05pm, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Dec 2021 20:27:07 +0800 Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > Background information can be checked in cover letter of v2 RESEND POST
> > as below:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/all/20211207030750.30824-1-bhe@redhat.com/T/#u
>
> Please include all relevant info right here, in the [0/n]. For a
> number of reasons, one of which is that the text is more likely to be
> up to date as the patchset evolves.
>
> It's unusual that this patchset has two non-urgent patches and the
> final three patches are cc:stable. It makes one worry that patches 3-5
> might have dependencies on 1-2. Also, I'd expect to merge the three
> -stable patches during 5.16-rcX which means I have to reorder things,
> redo changelogs, update links and blah blah.
>
> So can I ask that you redo all of this as two patch series? A 3-patch
> series which is targeted at -stable, followed by a separate two-patch
> series which is targeted at 5.17-rc1. Each series with its own fully
> prepared [0/n] cover.

Sure, will do. Sorry for the mess.

Before the 3-patch series posting, I may need to continue discussing and
making clear if the current patch 5/5 is a good fix, or whether we need
change to take other solution. So I will take the first two patches out
and post them.