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[66.29.188.166]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id l3sm16496310pga.92.2018.11.12.07.48.36 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 12 Nov 2018 07:48:38 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/12] unify the interface of the proportional-share policy in blkio/io To: Paolo Valente Cc: Oleksandr Natalenko , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Tejun Heo , Li Zefan , Angelo Ruocco , Dennis Zhou , Josef Bacik , Liu Bo , Bart Van Assche , Johannes Weiner , linux-block , linux-kernel , Ulf Hansson , Linus Walleij , Mark Brown , 'Paolo Valente' via bfq-iosched , cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet , lennart@poettering.net References: <20181112095632.69114-1-paolo.valente@linaro.org> <9e8adb3271680165d85994a225713391@natalenko.name> From: Jens Axboe Message-ID: Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2018 08:48:35 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.2.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 11/12/18 8:45 AM, Paolo Valente wrote: > BTW, since this patch series is probably even more useful for older > than for future kernels, might it make sense to also propose it for > stable/longterm kernels (provided that such a possibility exists)? That just not how things work, we don't put different things in older/stable kernels, it's strictly backports of what we have in current/newer kernels. Hence it appears to be a dead end right now. -- Jens Axboe