Patrick Steinhardt <ps@xxxxxx> writes: > I don't know. I just happen to revisit this topic every few days, and > every time I stumble upon some more performance improvements. It would > feel wrong to shift the goalposts of the other series every time I find > something new, so I instead opt for separate patch series. > > If this proves to be annoying for reviewers, then feel free to shout at > me and I'll change my approach. The easiest would be to keep them independent and to justify them independently. There is no shifting the goalposts involved if you did so. Of course, you wouldn't be able to include the improvements the follow-on topics make as part of the "advertising material" to sell the benefit of the base series, though. It can only work when the follow-on topic is truly independent and is a good idea by itself. Another is to keep these follow-on topics unpublished before the base topic graduates, and pretend that you came up with them much later than you originally did. Nobody would notice and mind, as the base topic would be cast in stone by that time. At the receiving end, what is most irritating is a series of topics that pretends to be about different things but depend on each other to function well [*]. I would imagine that it would be a lot more trivial and pleasant to handle if any of the patches involved did not come before these follow-on topics are all already thought of by the author and instead came in a well-structured single topic, but we do not live in a perfect world ;-). In the case of this particular patch, I think the logic behind the change makes sense by itself, so if I were doing it, I'd probably choose to sell it as an independent change unrelated to the other topic. Thanks. [Footnote] * Any time the base topic gets rerolled, I'd be the one who ends up having to remember which other topics that did not rerolled depend on it in what order and rebase them correctly, and then I have to replace the follow-on topics that have been rerolled. Even a single missed subtopic will cause the day's integration work redone, and all that robs time and concentration that the topics by other contributors needs from me, which would make me grumpy X-<.
