From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] sunvnet: Fixes to avoid soft lockup in sunvnet Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 14:08:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20140811.140857.65481151389542468.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20140810194807.GB5222@oracle.com> <20140811.135642.2149726326739266234.davem@davemloft.net> <20140811210354.GB20351@oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: raghuram.kothakota@oracle.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:59017 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754899AbaHKVI6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Aug 2014 17:08:58 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20140811210354.GB20351@oracle.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Sowmini Varadhan Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 17:03:54 -0400 > On (08/11/14 13:56), David Miller wrote: >> >> Please don't fix multiple things in one huge patch, split up the >> changes into separate easily reviewed patches. > > So there were 4 different sources of soft-lockup here, each of them > was just a few lines of change. Do you really want these as 4 patches? Absolutely, the different lockup changes have different implications and different sets of issues to consider.