Re: [PATCH mm-new v8 2/4] mm: khugepaged: refine scan progress number

Andrew Morton
2026-03-25T15:09:32Z

On Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:10:23 +0000 "Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)" <ljs@kernel.org> wrote:

> > No need to update the patch description.
>
> I will take a look at this (sorry for delay) but general point - while
> fix-patches are convenient, they're incredibly anti-reviewer.
>
> I hope at some point in the future we can move away from that so you can look at
> a series on list and know that what's shown there is the actual patch.

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?