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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: "humin (Q)" <humin29@huawei.com>,
	"Niklas Söderlund" <niklas.soderlund@corigine.com>,
	"Ferruh Yigit" <ferruh.yigit@amd.com>
Cc: Chaoyong He <chaoyong.he@corigine.com>,
	dev@dpdk.org, oss-drivers@corigine.com,
	Zerun Fu <zerun.fu@corigine.com>,
	stable@dpdk.org, Peng Zhang <peng.zhang@corigine.com>,
	Long Wu <long.wu@corigine.com>,
	David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] net/bonding: fix bond startup failure when NUMA is -1
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2023 16:19:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1761107.VLH7GnMWUR@thomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0cda2d4a-1deb-9024-9578-de98082c6ffc@amd.com>

20/06/2023 16:10, Ferruh Yigit:
> On 6/20/2023 2:15 PM, humin (Q) wrote:
> > Hi, Niklas, Ferruh,
> > 
> > 在 2023/6/20 19:03, Niklas Söderlund 写道:
> >> Hi Connor and Ferruh,
> >>
> >> On 2023-06-19 09:57:17 +0100, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> >>> On 6/16/2023 1:00 PM, humin (Q) wrote:
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> 在 2023/6/16 15:20, Chaoyong He 写道:
> >>>>> From: Zerun Fu <zerun.fu@corigine.com>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> After the mainline Linux kernel commit
> >>>>> "fe205d984e7730f4d21f6f8ebc60f0698404ac31" (ACPI: Remove side effect
> >>>>> of partly creating a node in acpi_map_pxm_to_online_node) by
> >>>>> Jonathan Cameron. When the system does not support NUMA architecture,
> >>>>> the "socket_id" is expected to be -1. The valid "socket_id" in
> >>>>> BOND PMD is greater than or equal to zero. So it will cause an error
> >>>>> when DPDK checks the validity of the "socket_id" when starting the
> >>>>> bond. This commit can fix this bug.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Fixes: f294e04851fd ("net/bonding: fix socket ID check")
> >>>>> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Signed-off-by: Zerun Fu <zerun.fu@corigine.com>
> >>>>> Reviewed-by: Peng Zhang <peng.zhang@corigine.com>
> >>>>> Reviewed-by: Chaoyong He <chaoyong.he@corigine.com>
> >>>>> Reviewed-by: Long Wu <long.wu@corigine.com>
> >>>> No need add your colleagues unless they "reviwed-by" through
> >>>> email-list.
> >>>>
> >>> Hi Connor,
> >>>
> >>> This is done time to time, if code is already internally reviewed, send
> >>> review/ack tags within the patch, to reduce noise in the mail list.
> >> This is the reason why patches from us usually have 1 or 2 R-b tags when
> >> we post to the list. We have an internal review and CI pipeline we run
> >> patches thru to reduce the noise at the list and to not waste upstream
> >> review resources.
> >>
> >> We follow the DPDK workflow internally before we submit patches to the
> >> public mailing list. I hope we can continue to do so and add R-b tags,
> >> as they represent real effort by the developers.
> > 
> > Actually,  this is an interesting story.
> > The reason why I said so is I met same circumstances a few years ago.
> > Then I sent one patch with R-b tags which added internally by my
> > colleagues.
> > 
> > Someone from mail-list said this was not right.  From then on, every time I
> > send patches, I will delete R-b tags and send to mail-list.
> > 
> 
> For a driver, vendor and maintainers are experts and probably internal
> reviews are good enough. Most of the times details are not interesting
> to the rest of the community.
> 
> But for code that impact multiple vendors, like libraries, it is good to
> have public reviews to share reasoning and updates and record them for
> future.
> 
> Sometimes for this code that impact multiple vendor, if the author and
> maintainer are from same company, we receive a patch with maintainer's
> ack with it.
> This raises questions on how much it is reviewed, how many internal
> version it went through 1 or 11, or what was the design decision
> reasoning etc.. If these concerns felt somehow, explicit acks from
> maintainer requested time to time.
> 
> Or for me, some obvious mistakes in patch, with maintainer's ack already
> embedded in it raises similar concerns and I request explicit ack.
> 
> But technically there is nothing preventing ack to be embedded into
> patch itself.

Yes
If there is an internal review, you can embed the tag.

The decision of what is enough for a patch to be merged
is the role of the tree maintainer.
The component maintainer must make sure that the patches are well reviewed,
and the tree maintainer does a last check of trust & quality.




  reply	other threads:[~2023-06-20 14:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-06-16  3:20 [PATCH] " Chaoyong He
2023-06-16  3:54 ` humin (Q)
2023-06-16  6:08   ` Chaoyong He
2023-06-16 11:57     ` humin (Q)
2023-06-16  7:15 ` Chaoyong He
2023-06-16  7:20   ` [PATCH v3] " Chaoyong He
2023-06-16 12:00     ` humin (Q)
2023-06-19  8:57       ` Ferruh Yigit
2023-06-20  2:53         ` humin (Q)
2023-06-20 10:18           ` Ferruh Yigit
2023-06-20 11:03         ` Niklas Söderlund
2023-06-20 13:15           ` humin (Q)
2023-06-20 14:10             ` Ferruh Yigit
2023-06-20 14:19               ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2023-06-21  4:00               ` humin (Q)

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