On 1/19/26 06:07, Garg, Shivank wrote:
On 1/19/2026 1:52 AM, Andrew Morton wrote:
Please tolerate a little whining about the timeliess here. We're at
-rc6, v4 was added to mm.git over a month ago, had quite a lot of
review, this is very close to being moved into the mm-stable branch and now
we get v5. Argh.
I sincerely apologize for this.
I had this doubt on sending an incremental patch or V5:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/[email protected]
V5:
- In patch 2/2, Simplify dirty writeback retry logic (David)
Are you sure this is the only change? It looks like a lot for a
simplification and I'm wondering if we should retain the v4 series and
defer a simplification for separate consideration during the next
cycle.
Yes, patch 1/2 is unchanged and patch 2/2 is the only change.
The diff looks larger due to code movement but logic is actually simpler now.
I completely understand if you prefer to keep V4 and defer this
refactoring. I'm sorry for creating this late-cycle churn. Please let me
know what you'd prefer and I'll follow your guidance.
There is no reason to rush any of this. :)
Review was not over and due to multiple factors my review on v4 came in
later than I wanted.
Andrew, if you prefer, I can start sending as a reply to every patch set
that I want to review so you are aware that it is on my review backlog.
Unfortunately we can't have nice things (sub-maintainer acks).
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Cheers
David
