From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@mbligh.org>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: vmscan-give-referenced-active-and-unmapped-pages-a-second-trip-around-the-lru
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 00:15:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070823001517.1252911b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070823041137.GH18788@wotan.suse.de>
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 06:11:37 +0200 Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> wrote:
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.23-rc3/2.6.23-rc3-mm1/broken-out/vmscan-give-referenced-active-and-unmapped-pages-a-second-trip-around-the-lru.patch
>
> About this patch... I hope it doesn't get merged without good reason...
I have no intention at all of merging it until it's proven to be a net
benefit. This is engineering. We shouldn't merge VM changes based on
handwaving.
It does fix a bug (ie: a difference between design intent and
implementation) but I have no idea whether it improves or worsens anything.
> [handwaving]
;)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-23 7:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-23 4:11 vmscan-give-referenced-active-and-unmapped-pages-a-second-trip-around-the-lru Nick Piggin
2007-08-23 7:15 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-08-23 9:07 ` vmscan-give-referenced-active-and-unmapped-pages-a-second-trip-around-the-lru Nick Piggin
2007-08-23 11:48 ` vmscan-give-referenced-active-and-unmapped-pages-a-second-trip-aroun d-the-lru Andrea Arcangeli
2007-08-24 20:43 ` RFC: Noreclaim with "Keep Mlocked Pages off the LRU" Lee Schermerhorn
2007-08-27 1:35 ` Nick Piggin
2007-08-27 14:34 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-08-27 15:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-08-27 23:51 ` Nick Piggin
2007-08-28 12:29 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-08-28 0:06 ` Nick Piggin
2007-08-28 14:52 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-08-28 21:54 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-29 14:40 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-08-29 17:39 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-30 0:09 ` Rik van Riel
2007-08-30 14:49 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-08-29 4:38 ` Nick Piggin
2007-08-30 16:34 ` Lee Schermerhorn
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