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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] WorkStruct: Shrink work_struct by two thirds
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 11:44:33 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <10937.1164282273@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061122132008.2691bd9d.akpm@osdl.org>

Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:

> > These patches shrink work_struct by 8 of the 12 words it ordinarily
> > consumes.
> 
> waaaaaaaay too many rejects for me, sorry.  This is quite the worst time in
> the kernel cycle to be preparing patches like this.  Especially when they're
> against mainline when everyone has so much material pending.
> 
> Please wait until 2.6.20-rc1, or prepare diffs against next -mm.

I'll wait till -rc1.

I could give you diffs against -mm, but I'm not sure it's help:-/  This sort
of blanket patch really needs to go underneath your patch queue rather than on
top of it, I think.

Of course, it all depends on whether Linus wants to take it at all...  Linus?

David

  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-23 11:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-22 13:02 [PATCH 0/5] WorkStruct: Shrink work_struct by two thirds David Howells
2006-11-22 13:02 ` [PATCH 1/5] WorkStruct: Separate delayable and non-delayable events. [try #2] David Howells
2006-11-22 13:02 ` [PATCH 2/5] WorkStruct: Typedef the work function prototype " David Howells
2006-11-22 13:02 ` [PATCH 3/5] WorkStruct: Merge the pending bit into the wq_data pointer " David Howells
2006-11-22 16:32   ` Randy Dunlap
2006-11-22 13:02 ` [PATCH 4/5] WorkStruct: Pass the work_struct pointer instead of context data " David Howells
2006-11-22 15:02 ` [PATCH 0/5] WorkStruct: Shrink work_struct by two thirds David Howells
2006-11-22 21:20 ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-23 11:44   ` David Howells [this message]
2006-11-23 17:25     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-11-23 20:01       ` David Howells
2006-11-23 21:40         ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-23 21:04           ` David Howells
2006-11-23 14:59   ` David Howells
2006-11-23 16:01     ` Stefan Richter
2006-12-05 19:52 ` [uml-devel] GIT pull on work_struct reduction tree David Howells
2006-12-05 19:52   ` David Howells
2006-12-05 20:16   ` [uml-devel] " Andrew Morton
2006-12-05 20:16     ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-05 21:05     ` [uml-devel] " Stefan Richter
2006-12-05 21:05       ` Stefan Richter
2006-12-05 21:41     ` [uml-devel] " David Howells
2006-12-05 21:41       ` David Howells
2006-12-06 15:06   ` David Howells

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