On Tue, Apr 23, 2024 at 08:05:22AM -0700, Marius Fleischer wrote: > Hi Dave, > > Thank you so much for your detailed explanations! > > > > Do you think it would make sense to backport that patch to 5.15.156 (the > > > LTS kernel)? > > > > That's up to the 5.15 LTS maintainers to decide. They also need to > > weigh up the fact that xlog_cil_kvmalloc() doesn't exist anymore in > > the upstream code base. i.e. we found other places that had the same > > kvmalloc() performance problems, and so lifted that code up further > > and used it in other places in XFS.... > > > > Understood. Please allow me one last follow-up question. Did I add the correct > maintainers/mailing lists to reach the 5.15 LTS maintainers? If not, > how do I find > the correct addresses? I used scripts/get_maintainer.pl as suggested here > (https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/reporting-issues.html) > to locate maintainers/mailing lists. You got it correct -- Leah is the 5.15 maintainer of record. --D > Wishing you a lovely week! > > Best, > Marius
