On Tue, 2023-04-11 at 10:16 -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote: > +Timeline > +~~~~~~~~ > +Submissions are typically reviewed and applied in FIFO order, with some wiggle > +room for the size of a series, patches that are "cache hot", etc. Fixes, > +especially for the current release and or stable trees, get to jump the queue. > +Patches that will be taken through a non-KVM tree (most often through the tip > +tree) and/or have other acks/reviews also jump the queue to some extent. > + > +Note, the vast majority of review is done between rc1 and rc6, give or take. > +The period between rc6 and the next rc1 is used to catch up on other tasks, > +i.e. radio silence during this period isn't unusual. > + > +Pings to get a status update are welcome, but keep in mind the timing of the > +current release cycle and have realistic expectations. If you are pinging for > +acceptance, i.e. not just for feedback or an update, please do everything you > +can, within reason, to ensure that your patches are ready to be merged! Pings > +on series that break the build or fail tests lead to unhappy maintainers! > + It seems you don't like resending patch as a ping: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230410031021.4145297-1-alexjlzheng@xxxxxxxxxxx/t/#md30aa77e5c2592b5b1fb0401d14e6fdbf52c2e06 Do you want to include this to the documentation too?