Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 May 2020 20:35:08 +0200 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH V6 0/4] x86/resctrl: Enable user to view and select thread throttling mode |
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On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 10:32:02AM -0700, Reinette Chatre wrote: > I was told that these enhancements really needed to get into v5.8, > otherwise the OSV intercepts will be much further out. Certainly not of > concern to you and not your problem, I am just answering your question > as an explanation for my goal for inclusion into v5.8.
I believe under "OSV" fall distros too and I, with my distro hat on, can tell you that at least for us, SUSE, it suffices if the patches are in a maintainer tree on their way upstream to start backporting them.
Which means, if they get queued in tip after 5.8 releases, that would be like a couple of weeks later.
Dunno if the other OSVs you work with have such relaxed requirements - just pointing out that if they do, a couple of weeks later is not a whole cycle later.
> It seems inappropriate that I have the title of maintainer and not be > able to have patches considered for inclusion during an entire release > cycle.
Well, we try very hard to be fair when looking at patchsets. In your case, I already took a patchset from you this cycle and there are other patchsets waiting for a lot longer than yours - even patchsets from your colleagues at Intel.
So I understand that you think it might be inappropriate but please try to understand it also from our standpoint in that we try to round-robin between everyone as fair as possible.
So I will try to look at yours in the next days but I cannot promise you anything.
Thx.
-- Regards/Gruss, Boris.
https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette
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