Re: [PATCH] nvme: add cond_resched() to nvme_complete_batch()

From: Keith Busch
Date: Thu May 04 2023 - 11:06:29 EST


On Thu, May 04, 2023 at 10:12:46AM +0000, Niklas Cassel wrote:
> On Thu, May 04, 2023 at 11:39:53AM +0200, Niklas Cassel wrote:
> >
> > Something is fishy here...
> >
> > (Perhaps the maintainer did a git revert instead of applying the fix...
> > and accidentally squashed the revert with a proper commit...
> > But even that does not make sense, as there simply seems to be too many
> > lines changed in 2d55c16c0c54 ("dmapool: create/destroy cleanup") for that
> > to be the case...)
>
> It seems like the additional lines in
> 2d55c16c0c54 ("dmapool: create/destroy cleanup") is explained by the
> maintainer (probably accidentally) reverting additional patches in that
> very same commit.
>
> It seems like that commit reverted all changes to mm/dmapool.c since v6.3:

Spot on, thanks for confirming! Somehow a series revert was squahed into
the final patch. :(

We reached the same conclusion pretty late yesterday, so I'll wait for
Andrew to suggest how to proceed. I think we have to rebase whole series
with the correct final patch and resend the pull.

> $ git log --oneline 2d55c16c0c54325bf15286cfa6ba6c268036b9e4 --not v6.3 mm/dmapool.c
> 2d55c16c0c54 dmapool: create/destroy cleanup
> a4de12a032fa dmapool: link blocks across pages
> 9d062a8a4c6d dmapool: don't memset on free twice
> 887aef615818 dmapool: simplify freeing
> 2591b516533b dmapool: consolidate page initialization
> 36d1a28921a4 dmapool: rearrange page alloc failure handling
> 52e7d5653979 dmapool: move debug code to own functions
> 19f504584038 dmapool: speedup DMAPOOL_DEBUG with init_on_alloc
> 347e4e44c0a9 dmapool: cleanup integer types
> 65216545436b dmapool: use sysfs_emit() instead of scnprintf()
> 7f796d141c07 dmapool: remove checks for dev == NULL
>
>
> $ git diff v6.3 2d55c16c0c54325bf15286cfa6ba6c268036b9e4 mm/dmapool.c
> <nothing>
>
>
> Should probably tell Andrew so that he has time to send out a new PR
> before the merge window closes. (I added him in To: .)
>
> He should probably pick up this fix too:
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-mm/patch/20230221165400.1595247-1-kbusch@xxxxxxxx/

Andrew actually squashed that fix into the original patch.