From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] compacting file_ra_state
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 23:03:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070720230344.bed611b6.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070721055706.GA5097@one.firstfloor.org>
On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 07:57:06 +0200 Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 09:27:01PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Sat, 21 Jul 2007, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> > >
> > > Sorry, forgot to prefix the patch titles with [readahead].
> > > Should I repost?
> >
> > Not for me, but on the other hand, I'd prefer for this to be in -mm a bit,
>
> Haven't the readahead patches already essentially been in -mm* for some time?
> I thought the new patches were some some restructured code, but essentially
> the tested algorithms?
>
The all-singing all-dancging readahead code was in -mm for maybe a year.
Then the much-reduced, feasible-for-merging code was in -mm for several
months. It went mainline this week.
This new patch series is some optimisation and algorithm tweaking on top of
the recently-merged well-tested stuff. Waiting for 2.6.24 is appropriate.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-21 6:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-21 3:57 [PATCH 0/8] readahead cleanups and interleaved readahead take 2 Fengguang Wu
2007-07-21 3:57 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-07-21 3:57 ` [PATCH 1/8] compacting file_ra_state Fengguang Wu
2007-07-21 3:57 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-07-21 4:06 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-07-21 4:06 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-07-21 4:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-21 4:29 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-07-21 4:29 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-07-21 5:57 ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-21 6:03 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-07-21 6:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-21 6:17 ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-21 3:57 ` [PATCH 2/8] mmap read-around simplification Fengguang Wu
2007-07-21 3:57 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-07-21 3:57 ` [PATCH 3/8] combine file_ra_state.prev_index/prev_offset into prev_pos Fengguang Wu
2007-07-21 3:57 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-07-21 3:57 ` [PATCH 4/8] trivial filemap.c cleanups Fengguang Wu
2007-07-21 3:57 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-07-21 3:57 ` [PATCH 5/8] remove several readahead macros Fengguang Wu
2007-07-21 3:57 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-07-21 3:57 ` [PATCH 6/8] remove the limit max_sectors_kb imposed on max_readahead_kb Fengguang Wu
2007-07-21 3:57 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-07-21 3:57 ` [PATCH 7/8] introduce radix_tree_scan_hole() Fengguang Wu
2007-07-21 3:57 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-07-21 3:57 ` [PATCH 8/8] basic support of interleaved reads Fengguang Wu
2007-07-21 3:57 ` Fengguang Wu
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