Re: [RFC PATCH v2 3/7] sched/idle: Add poll before enter real idle path

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Thu Sep 14 2017 - 05:19:15 EST


On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 04:41:39PM +0800, Quan Xu wrote:
> > > On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 11:46:37AM +0000, Yang Zhang wrote:
> > > > Add poll in do_idle. For UP VM, if there are running task, it will not
> > > > goes into idle path, so we only enable poll in SMP VM.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Yang Zhang <yang.zhang.wz@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Quan Xu <quan.xu0@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > Broken SoB chain.
> >  Peter, I can't follow 'Broken SoB chain'.. could you explain more
> > about it?
> >
> ÂÂÂ Peter, Ping..

The SOB chain needs to show the path from the author to the upstream
maintainer. Yours has Yang before you, which doesn't say what his role
is.

Read Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst, section 11.

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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