Re: [PATCH] nvme: add cond_resched() to nvme_complete_batch()

[Niklas Cassel <Niklas.Cassel@wdc.com>]

On Thu, May 04, 2023 at 09:06:20AM -0600, Keith Busch wrote:
> On Thu, May 04, 2023 at 10:12:46AM +0000, Niklas Cassel wrote:
> > On Thu, May 04, 2023 at 11:39:53AM +0200, Niklas Cassel wrote:
> > > 
> > > Something is fishy here...
> > > 
> > > (Perhaps the maintainer did a git revert instead of applying the fix...
> > > and accidentally squashed the revert with a proper commit...
> > > But even that does not make sense, as there simply seems to be too many
> > > lines changed in 2d55c16c0c54 ("dmapool: create/destroy cleanup") for that
> > > to be the case...)
> > 
> > It seems like the additional lines in
> > 2d55c16c0c54 ("dmapool: create/destroy cleanup") is explained by the
> > maintainer (probably accidentally) reverting additional patches in that
> > very same commit.
> > 
> > It seems like that commit reverted all changes to mm/dmapool.c since v6.3:
> 
> Spot on, thanks for confirming! Somehow a series revert was squahed into
> the final patch. :(
> 
> We reached the same conclusion pretty late yesterday, so I'll wait for
> Andrew to suggest how to proceed. I think we have to rebase whole series
> with the correct final patch and resend the pull.
>  
> > $ git log --oneline 2d55c16c0c54325bf15286cfa6ba6c268036b9e4 --not v6.3 mm/dmapool.c 
> > 2d55c16c0c54 dmapool: create/destroy cleanup
> > a4de12a032fa dmapool: link blocks across pages
> > 9d062a8a4c6d dmapool: don't memset on free twice
> > 887aef615818 dmapool: simplify freeing
> > 2591b516533b dmapool: consolidate page initialization
> > 36d1a28921a4 dmapool: rearrange page alloc failure handling
> > 52e7d5653979 dmapool: move debug code to own functions
> > 19f504584038 dmapool: speedup DMAPOOL_DEBUG with init_on_alloc
> > 347e4e44c0a9 dmapool: cleanup integer types
> > 65216545436b dmapool: use sysfs_emit() instead of scnprintf()
> > 7f796d141c07 dmapool: remove checks for dev == NULL

Hello Keith, Andrew,

Note that the first four patches were not part of Keith's series,
but they were reverted as well.


> Andrew actually squashed that fix into the original patch.

Ok, strange why there was a revert done at all then.


Kind regards,
Niklas