On Tue 27-03-18 19:54:35, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 09:06:37AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > > So by no means the MM backports were reviewed by me. And considering how hard > > it is to get any review for MM patches in general I strongly suspect that > > others didn't review either. > > > > In general I am quite skeptical about the automagic backports > > selections, to be honest. MM patches should be reasonably good at > > selecting stable backports and adding more patches on top just risks > > regressions. > > BTW other than suggesting we needing *actual review* of the MM patches, are > there known unit tests which could be run as well? Thinking long term. There are some in selftests but most fixes are quite hard to get a specialized testcase for. Rememeber the MM is a pile of heuristics to handle large scale of workloads. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-xfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
