From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2018 09:37:49 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: David Laight Cc: 'John Hubbard' , "'john.hubbard@gmail.com'" , Andrew Morton , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , Jan Kara , Tom Talpey , Al Viro , Christian Benvenuti , Christoph Hellwig , Christopher Lameter , Dan Williams , Dennis Dalessandro , Doug Ledford , Jason Gunthorpe , Jerome Glisse , Matthew Wilcox , Michal Hocko , Mike Marciniszyn , Ralph Campbell , LKML , "linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] put_user_page*(): start converting the call sites Message-ID: <20181228083749.GC6341@amd> References: <20181204001720.26138-1-jhubbard@nvidia.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="E/DnYTRukya0zdZ1" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: --E/DnYTRukya0zdZ1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi! > > This "patch 0000" is not a commit message, as it never shows up in git = log. > > Each of the follow-up patches does have details about the changes it ma= kes. >=20 > I think you should still describe the change - at least in summary. >=20 > The patch I looked at didn't really... > IIRC it still referred to external links. >=20 > > But maybe you are really asking for more background information, which I > > should have added in this cover letter. Here's a start: > >=20 > > https://lore.kernel.org/r/20181110085041.10071-1-jhubbard@nvidia.com >=20 > Yes, but links go stale.... It should really explain what the end goal is... and not even the 20181110085041.10071-1-jhubbard@nvidia.com explains that. It seems you are introducing small slowdown to simplify something...? Pavel --=20 (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blo= g.html --E/DnYTRukya0zdZ1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAlwl4N0ACgkQMOfwapXb+vKh7ACeJVdQzFocpewJi2c4F2t+if6H 56UAoL1qhPFQFE851+GkLtCwOWVQx1mC =9WNe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --E/DnYTRukya0zdZ1--