Re: [PATCH v7 0/7] x86,fs/resctrl: Pave the way for MPAM counter assignment

[Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>]

Hi Boris,

On 5/6/26 9:56 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, May 06, 2026 at 08:58:07AM -0700, Reinette Chatre wrote:
>> Ben is not rushing this work and has indeed been patiently addressing feedback.
>> I considered this series to indeed be close to ready during the previous
>> cycle but instead of rushing the polishing was left for this cycle.
>>
>> v7 closely followed v6 since we felt v6 was ready for inclusion but contained
>> an unfortunate typo (missing a "---" in changelog). v7 was thus submitted shortly to
>> ensure we pass a clean series to x86 maintainers for consideration.
> 
> Yap, I saw all that.
> 
>> This is an instance where a brand new reviewer appears to a series after all patches have
>> RB tag. I welcome and appreciate all reviews and it would be great to see more such
>> collaboration to general resctrl and earlier in review cycles. In this case I do not
>> believe this criticism about this work being half-baked and rushed is justified.
> 
> I think you're misunderstanding me. My response was to Babu in an attempt to
> correct his thinking that somehow patches should be rushed before a merge
> window.

I did misunderstand. My apologies.

> 
> People tend to do that in front of merge windows and I'm replying to that
> sentiment in the hope that as many people as possible read that and understand
> that rushing patches never works and is never good.

ack.

> 
> It didn't have anything to do with Ben's patchset - it *just* happened to be
> on that thread only.
> 
> As a matter of fact, I started applying his v7 but was waiting for Sashiko to
> finish reviewing it.

Thank you very much for considering this series.

> 
> I hope this makes the whole thing more clear.

It does. Thank you very much.

Reinette