Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932519Ab2F2QwU (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jun 2012 12:52:20 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:65268 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755855Ab2F2QwS (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jun 2012 12:52:18 -0400 Message-ID: <4FEDDD0C.60609@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 12:51:24 -0400 From: Dor Laor Reply-To: dlaor@redhat.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120615 Thunderbird/13.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar CC: Hillf Danton , Peter Zijlstra , Andrea Arcangeli , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Dan Smith , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Paul Turner , Suresh Siddha , Mike Galbraith , "Paul E. McKenney" , Lai Jiangshan , Bharata B Rao , Lee Schermerhorn , Rik van Riel , Johannes Weiner , Srivatsa Vaddagiri , Christoph Lameter , Alex Shi , Mauricio Faria de Oliveira , Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , Don Morris , Benjamin Herrenschmidt Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/40] autonuma: CPU follow memory algorithm References: <1340888180-15355-1-git-send-email-aarcange@redhat.com> <1340888180-15355-14-git-send-email-aarcange@redhat.com> <1340895238.28750.49.camel@twins> <20120629125517.GD32637@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20120629125517.GD32637@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3241 Lines: 95 On 06/29/2012 08:55 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Hillf Danton wrote: > >> On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 10:53 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: >>> >>> Unless you're going to listen to feedback I give you, I'm >>> going to completely stop reading your patches, I don't give >>> a rats arse you work for the same company anymore. >> >> Are you brought up, Peter, in dirty environment with mind >> polluted? > > You do not seem to be aware of the history of this patch-set, > I suspect Peter got "polluted" by Andrea ignoring his repeated > review feedbacks... AFAIK, Andrea answered many of Peter's request by reducing the memory overhead, adding documentation and changing the scheduler integration. When someone plants 'crap' too much in his comments, its not a surprise that some will get ignored. Moreover, I don't think the decent comments got ignored, sometimes both were talking in parallel lines - even in this case, it's hard to say whether Peter's like to add ia64 support or just like to get rid of the forceful migration as a whole. Since it takes more time to fully understand the code than to write the comments, I suggest to go the extra mile there and make sure the review is crystal clear. > > If his multiple rounds of polite (and extensive) review didn't > have much of an effect then maybe some amount of not so nice > shouting has more of an effect? > > The other option would be to NAK and ignore the patchset, in > that sense Peter is a lot more constructive and forward looking > than a polite NAK would be, even if the language is rough. NAK is better w/ further explanation or even suggestion about alternatives. The previous comments were not shouts but the mother of all NAKs. There are some in the Linux community that adore flames but this is a perfect example that this approach slows innovation instead of advance it. Some developers have a thick skin and nothing gets in, others are human and have feelings. Using a tiny difference in behavior we can do much much better. What's works in a f2f loud discussion doesn't play well in email. Or alternatively: /* * can_nice - check if folks on lkml can be nicer&productive * @p: person * @nice: nice value * Since nice isn't a negative property, nice is an uint here. */ int can_nice(const struct person *p, const unsigned int nice) { int nice_rlim = MAX_LIMIT_BEFORE_NAK; BUG_ON(!capable(CAP_SYS_NICE)); if (nice_rlim >= task_rlimit(p, RLIMIT_NICE)) printk(KERN_INFO "Please NAK w/ decent explanation or \ submit an alternative patch); return 0; } Ingo, what's your technical perspective of this particular patch? Cheers, Dor > > Thanks, > > Ingo > > -- > To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in > the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, > see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . > Don't email: email@kvack.org > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/