From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, benh@kernel.crashing.org,
paulus@samba.org
Subject: Re: [patch 7/7] powerpc: lockless get_user_pages_fast
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:24:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080611062404.GC11545@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080610230622.abed7b55.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 11:06:22PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 06:49:02 +0200 Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> wrote:
>
> > Can memory management patches go though mm/? I dislike the cowboy
^^^
That should read -mm, of course.
> > method of merging things that some other subsystems have adopted :)
>
> I think I'd prefer that. I may be a bit slow, but we're shoving at
> least 100 MM patches through each kernel release and I think I review
> things more closely than others choose to. At least, I find problems
> and I've seen some pretty wild acked-bys...
I wouldn't say you're too slow. You're as close to mm and mm/fs
maintainer as we're likely to get and I think it would be much worse
to have things merged out-of-band. Even the more peripheral parts like
slab or hugetlb.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-11 6:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-05 9:43 [patch 0/7] speculative page references, lockless pagecache, lockless gup npiggin
2008-06-05 9:43 ` [patch 1/7] mm: readahead scan lockless npiggin
2008-06-05 9:43 ` [patch 2/7] radix-tree: add gang_lookup_slot, gang_lookup_slot_tag npiggin
2008-06-05 9:43 ` [patch 3/7] mm: speculative page references npiggin
2008-06-06 14:20 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-06-06 16:26 ` Nick Piggin
2008-06-06 16:27 ` Nick Piggin
2008-06-09 4:48 ` Tim Pepper
2008-06-10 19:08 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-06-11 3:19 ` Nick Piggin
2008-06-05 9:43 ` [patch 4/7] mm: lockless pagecache npiggin
2008-06-05 9:43 ` [patch 5/7] mm: spinlock tree_lock npiggin
2008-06-05 9:43 ` [patch 6/7] powerpc: implement pte_special npiggin
2008-06-06 4:04 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-06-05 9:43 ` [patch 7/7] powerpc: lockless get_user_pages_fast npiggin
2008-06-09 8:32 ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-10 3:15 ` Nick Piggin
2008-06-10 19:00 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-06-11 3:18 ` Nick Piggin
2008-06-11 4:40 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-06-11 4:41 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-06-11 4:49 ` Nick Piggin
2008-06-11 6:06 ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-11 6:24 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2008-06-11 6:50 ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-11 23:20 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-06-11 4:47 ` Nick Piggin
2008-06-05 11:53 ` [patch 0/7] speculative page references, lockless pagecache, lockless gup Nick Piggin
2008-06-05 17:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-06 0:08 ` Nick Piggin
2008-06-06 21:32 ` Peter Zijlstra
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