From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "santosh.shilimkar-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org" Subject: Re: device attr cleanup (was: Handle mlx4 max_sge_rd correctly) Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 22:54:58 -0800 Message-ID: <566A7342.9090400@oracle.com> References: <566753E3.9060301@redhat.com> <20151208225940.GB27609@obsidianresearch.com> <20151208230244.GA10701@infradead.org> <20151209005203.GD16976@phlsvsds.ph.intel.com> <20151209184235.GB4522@infradead.org> <20151210014556.GA32059@phlsvsds.ph.intel.com> <56693758.90808@dev.mellanox.co.il> <93E3DE8A-0589-436D-A9A1-7EAC66B12739@oracle.com> <20151210180703.GC21482@obsidianresearch.com> <20151210233047.GB26009@infradead.org> <09F96E8A-5E1E-4345-9069-C07108AF0BC7@oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <09F96E8A-5E1E-4345-9069-C07108AF0BC7-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Chuck Lever , Christoph Hellwig , Anna Schumaker , "J. Bruce Fields" Cc: Jason Gunthorpe , "linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , "ira.weiny" , Or Gerlitz , Steve Wise , Or Gerlitz , Sagi Grimberg , Doug Ledford , "David S. Miller" List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org +Dave, On 12/10/15 4:49 PM, Chuck Lever wrote: > >> On Dec 10, 2015, at 6:30 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >> >> On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 11:07:03AM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: >>> The ARM folks do this sort of stuff on a regular basis.. Very early on >>> Doug prepares a topic branch with only the big change, NFS folks pull >>> it and then pull your work. Then Doug would send the topic branch to >>> Linus as soon as the merge window opens, then NFS would send theirs. >>> >>> This is alot less work overall than trying to sequence multiple >>> patches over multiple releases.. >> >> Agreed. Staging has alaways been a giant pain and things tend to never >> finish moving over that way if they are non-trivial enough. > > In that case: > > You need to make sure you have all the right Acks. I've added > Anna and Bruce to Ack the NFS-related portions. Santosh should > Ack the RDS part. > To make this flow work for RDS, Doug's topic branch needs to pulled into Dave's net-next as well. > http://git.infradead.org/users/hch/rdma.git/shortlog/refs/heads/ib_device_attr > > Given the proximity to the holidays and the next merge window, > Doug will need to get a properly-acked topic branch published > in the next day or two so the rest of us can rebase and start > testing before the relevant parties disappear for the holiday. > Regards, Santosh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html