Re: [PATCH v4 tip/perf/core 0/4] uprobes,mm: speculative lockless VMA-to-uprobe lookup

Andrii Nakryiko
2024-11-20T17:23:26Z

On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 7:43 AM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 07:40:15AM -0800, Andrii Nakryiko wrote:
> > Linus,
> >
> > I'm not sure what's going on here, this patch set seems to be in some
> > sort of "ignore list" on Peter's side with no indication on its
> > destiny.
>
> *sigh* it is not, but my inbox is like drinking from a firehose :/

Yet, you had time to look at and reply to much more recent patch sets
(e.g., [0] and [1], which landed 5 and 3 days ago).

And to be clear, your reviews and input there is appreciated, but
there has to be some wider timeliness and fairness here. This
particular patch set has been ready for a month, it's not that much
time to apply patches. Liao's patch set is even more stale. And for
the latter one I did give you a ping as well ([2]), just in case it
slipped through the cracks. That wasn't enough, unfortunately.

I'm not going to advise you on handling emails out of respect, sorry.
I'm sure you can figure it out. But if you feel overloaded and
overwhelmed, consider not *gaining* more responsibilities, like what
happened with the uprobe subsystem ([2]). Work can be shared,
delegated, and, sometimes, maybe just be "let go" and trust others to
do the right thing.

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20241116194202.GR22801@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net/
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20241119111809.GB2328@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/CAEf4BzY-0Eu27jyT_s2kRO1UuUPOkE9_SRrBOqu2gJfmxsv+3A@mail.gmail.com/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/all/172074397710.247544.17045299807723238107.stgit@devnote2/