From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 00:15:17 -0700 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: vmscan-give-referenced-active-and-unmapped-pages-a-second-trip-around-the-lru Message-Id: <20070823001517.1252911b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20070823041137.GH18788@wotan.suse.de> References: <20070823041137.GH18788@wotan.suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Nick Piggin Cc: Martin Bligh , Rik van Riel , Linux Memory Management List List-ID: On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 06:11:37 +0200 Nick Piggin 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] ;) -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org