Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751850AbdGEQx5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jul 2017 12:53:57 -0400 Received: from mail-oi0-f65.google.com ([209.85.218.65]:35115 "EHLO mail-oi0-f65.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751692AbdGEQx4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jul 2017 12:53:56 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20170705085657.eghd4xbv7g7shf5v@gmail.com> References: <20170705085657.eghd4xbv7g7shf5v@gmail.com> From: Linus Torvalds Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2017 09:53:55 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: gDHpK0eaCP8YbCco6ym1mWMWPxE Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/10] PCID and improved laziness To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Andy Lutomirski , "the arch/x86 maintainers" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Borislav Petkov , Andrew Morton , Mel Gorman , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , Nadav Amit , Rik van Riel , Dave Hansen , Arjan van de Ven , Peter Zijlstra Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 629 Lines: 15 On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 1:56 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > If it's all super stable I plan to tempt Linus with a late merge window pull > request for all these preparatory patches. (Unless he objects that is. Hint, hint.) I don't think I'll object. At some point the best testing is "lots of users". TLB issues are a bitch to debug, but at the same time this is clearly a "..but at some point we need to bite the bullet" case. I doubt the series is going to get a lot better. But yes, please do give it as much testing as humanly possible even without the wider coverage by random people. Linus