From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0B28B83CB1; Thu, 21 Mar 2024 12:42:25 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1711024946; cv=none; b=Ol1LihAwiIiF4cLhiJTWtzk05ePraJ3H2hgsHb+UvZtOM6U1yGkzRsFvdua0VfbSYDVLO0kARfICLA2f+Jl8Et3SBshUkIiQIPcCVU1SKoIlZeOXnpsM1LG077fKmp70mJlwegX1zOGGEEDBlNo4X7CE5l/qseh/nFjpYcrGAOw= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1711024946; c=relaxed/simple; bh=4L1mImHIJn/5ij9Hza2dN0P8w+LD4aIzTC2/Uq/6rl4=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=FQMypzjnbC077nQ0RZgyp1ScNqQWtpF9tgFWjXgo/TrqbQEAEHFMMLbgluUqHz39PdNhJFx9rvLvVnG1J3l4SyAl6R+Pod+IBvIox8LmY1oj4AaJrW5J+TAiY8N7Q53JN7SJl2XehyiTYCY4wrkgHtsBWMvxmVfQN1C9+kAnRlM= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=Ugl2Z8fv; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="Ugl2Z8fv" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D20DCC433F1; Thu, 21 Mar 2024 12:42:21 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1711024945; bh=4L1mImHIJn/5ij9Hza2dN0P8w+LD4aIzTC2/Uq/6rl4=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=Ugl2Z8fvJFURguYqJPEFzWEPyKrQ4TffJDxZ6C+d0U4czwvuXj0o+dnF82indBDtv 2aCFb9V826WNgqcSuWpf6DaKRahEOSAVlOkjjhueAjbak3IpjnLKgna/S9xWNWYnkC XwiStrhg4CxWNwbwMMNc10Q2mi6v011fo+13hE+Esn2PW2cINblBLbylM/Jdt9Su2t Jxp8R2gpI52OXTc6pWekXcCgZTEgk2ildWTmifzJQtLOadsOcEY8G5b1fZZqrVwZAN G2y8nQ7AwTMUxXGVacIoAQRG8I6fFb7/h9rQMe7lPkX4ub5BSAGgUmBnR4SALzLTwL gWhPl5MOxb1bg== Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 12:42:19 +0000 From: Simon Horman To: Xuan Zhuo Cc: Jakub Kicinski , Paolo Abeni , netdev@vger.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" , Eric Dumazet , "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Jason Wang , Alexei Starovoitov , Daniel Borkmann , Jesper Dangaard Brouer , John Fastabend , Stanislav Fomichev , Amritha Nambiar , Larysa Zaremba , Sridhar Samudrala , Maciej Fijalkowski , virtualization@lists.linux.dev, bpf@vger.kernel.org, Jiri Pirko Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v5 0/9] virtio-net: support device stats Message-ID: <20240321124219.GC356367@kernel.org> References: <20240318110602.37166-1-xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com> <1710762818.1520293-1-xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com> <316ea06417279a45d2d54bf4cc4afd2d775b419a.camel@redhat.com> <1710921861.9268863-1-xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com> <20240320203801.5950fb1d@kernel.org> <1710993274.7038217-1-xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1710993274.7038217-1-xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com> On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 11:54:34AM +0800, Xuan Zhuo wrote: > On Wed, 20 Mar 2024 20:38:01 -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > > On Wed, 20 Mar 2024 16:04:21 +0800 Xuan Zhuo wrote: > > > I have a question regarding the workflow for feature discussions. If we > > > consistently engage in discussions about a particular feature, this may result > > > in the submission of multiple patch sets. In light of this, should we modify the > > > usage of "PATCH" or "RFC" in our submissions depending on whether the merge > > > window is open or closed? This causes the title of our patch sets to keep > > > changing. > > > > Is switching between RFC and PATCH causing issues? > > You know someone may ignore the RFC patches. > And for me, that the pathsets for the particular feture have differ > prefix "PATCH" or "RFC" is odd. > > > Should be a simple modification to the git format-patch argument. > > That is ok. > > > > But perhaps your workload is different than mine. > > > > The merge window is only 2 weeks every 10 weeks, it's not changing > > often, I don't think. > > YES. I'm ok, if that is a rule. Hi, Maybe this helps: It is a long standing rule that for netdev, during the merge window, net-next is closed. During this time bugfixes may be posted (for net), and RFCs may be posted. https://docs.kernel.org/process/maintainer-netdev.html#git-trees-and-patch-flow