Alexei Starovoitov [off-list ref] wrote:

The last few days I've experienced long email delivery when I was not
directly cc-ed on patches.
Even right now I see some patches in patchworks, but not in my inbox.
Few folks reported similar issues.
In order for everyone to review the submissions appropriately
I'll be applying only the most obvious patches and
will let others sit in the patchworks a bit longer than usual.
Sorry about that.
Ironic that I'm using email to talk about email delays.

My understanding that these delays are not vger's fault.
Some remediations may be used sporadically, but
we need to accelerate our search of long term solutions.
I think Daniel's l2md:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dborkman/l2md.git/
is a great solution.
It's on my todo list to give it a try,
but I'm not sure how practical for every patch reviewer on this list
to switch to that model.
Thoughts?

If cloning git repos is too much work, You can subscribe to an
Atom feed of search results to paths or files you're interested
in using "dfn:" (diff-file-name) using your favorite feed
reader:

lore.kernel.org/lkml/?q=dfn:path/to/dir-or-file-youre-interested-in&x=A

Or drop the "&x=A" to get an HTML summary, or POST to that URL
with "&x=m" to download an mbox.

You can also search for multiple files at once by having dfn:foo
multiple times separated by "OR"

lore.kernel.org/lkml/?q=dfn:foo+OR+dfn:bar&x=A

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/_/text/help/ has other prefixes
like "dfn:" which might be helpful for search.

For example, if you expected to be Cc-ed (or To-ed) and want to
double-check that your mail account got it, you can use the "c:"
or "tc:" prefixes with your name or address, too.