On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 12:58:13PM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > > how bad is it to exceed the 15 patches per series limit? Do I need to > > do something about it? > > It's not a hard rule IIUC, if you have 16, 17 patches as an atomic > series which is hard to split, I'd think that's acceptable from time > to time. Especially if the patches themselves are not huge. > If you're already splitting a larger effort, keeping it < 15 is best. > In general if you can split a smaller logically contained series out > that's always preferred. The point is if the series is too large > reviewers are likely to postpone reviewing it until they can allocate > sufficiently large continuous block of time, which may be never. > It's all about efficient code review. > > At least that's my recollection / understanding. There may be more > reasons, we'd have to ask Dave.
To be fair this series is abusively large even for me to read, and _is_ easy to split. In v1 I had posted just the first half, but then figured that reviewers might want to have the full picture of where I'm trying to get at. But now that the picture has been given, I'm going back to the split format. Thanks.
