From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_MUTT autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFBC4C43387 for ; Fri, 28 Dec 2018 08:37:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CFE620866 for ; Fri, 28 Dec 2018 08:37:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1731531AbeL1Ihx (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Dec 2018 03:37:53 -0500 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.193]:45565 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1730925AbeL1Ihw (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Dec 2018 03:37:52 -0500 Received: by atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz (Postfix, from userid 512) id EF16480706; Fri, 28 Dec 2018 09:37:44 +0100 (CET) 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: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --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--