From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 02:15:19 -0700 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: 2.6.26-rc5-mm2 Message-Id: <20080610021519.52af66f5.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <200806101848.22237.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> References: <20080609223145.5c9a2878.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <200806101728.27486.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> <20080610013427.aa20a29b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <200806101848.22237.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> 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: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-testers@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Rik van Riel List-ID: On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:48:21 +1000 Nick Piggin wrote: > Is the plan to merge all reclaim changes in a big hit, rather than > slowly trickle in the different independent changes? It's going to take a lot of work to get such extensive reclaim changes landed. We need to convince ourselves that these changes are the right way to fix . We need to review and test the crap out of them. The 64-bit-only thing is a concern. I wonder about whether we've "fixed" anon pages but didn't do anything about file-backed mapped pages. Plus all the other stuff, plus stuff we haven't thought of yet. It's huge. -- 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