Date:   Fri, 17 Mar 2023 10:48:03 -0400
From:   Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Cc:     Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
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        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
        Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>,
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        Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, x86@kernel.org,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
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        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] COVER: Remove memcpy_page_flushcache()
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On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 09:16:34AM -0700, Ira Weiny wrote:
> > It's also much easier to run git-send-email HEAD^^^, rather than running
> > it three separate times, let alone if it's a 20 patch series.
> 
> Exactly.  And I'm using b4 which would have forced me to create a separate
> branch for each of the patches to track.  So I was keeping them around in
> a single branch to let 0day run after the merge window.  Then I forgot
> about the idea of splitting them because b4 had it all packaged up nice!
> 
> > 
> > I wonder if we could come up with some convention to indicate that a
> > series is made up of independent patches, and maintainers are free to
> > pick them individually - but still sent as a single series.
> 
> Maybe.  But perhaps b4 could have a send option which would split them
> out?  I'll see about adding an option to b4 but I've Cc'ed Konstantin as
> well for the idea.

Yes, I plan to introduce the concept of "bundles" in addition to "series". The
distinction is that when you send a bundle, each patch is sent as individual
submission and we generate the change-id for each patch. It's a bit more work
to send a v2 of some patch (you have to do a "prep -n --from-thread <msgid>"),
but it's not insurmountable and should help with queuing up individual patches
for sending post merge-window, like in your case.

-K