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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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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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  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-11  6:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 62+ 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 ` npiggin
2008-06-05  9:43 ` [patch 1/7] mm: readahead scan lockless npiggin
2008-06-05  9:43   ` 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   ` npiggin
2008-06-05  9:43 ` [patch 3/7] mm: speculative page references npiggin
2008-06-05  9:43   ` npiggin
2008-06-06 14:20   ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-06-06 14:20     ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-06-06 16:26     ` Nick Piggin
2008-06-06 16:26       ` Nick Piggin
2008-06-06 16:27     ` Nick Piggin
2008-06-06 16:27       ` Nick Piggin
2008-06-09  4:48   ` Tim Pepper
2008-06-09  4:48     ` Tim Pepper
2008-06-10 19:08   ` Christoph Lameter
2008-06-10 19:08     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-06-11  3:19     ` Nick Piggin
2008-06-11  3:19       ` Nick Piggin
2008-06-05  9:43 ` [patch 4/7] mm: lockless pagecache npiggin
2008-06-05  9:43   ` npiggin
2008-06-05  9:43 ` [patch 5/7] mm: spinlock tree_lock npiggin
2008-06-05  9:43   ` npiggin
2008-06-05  9:43 ` [patch 6/7] powerpc: implement pte_special npiggin
2008-06-05  9:43   ` npiggin
2008-06-06  4:04   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-06-06  4:04     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-06-05  9:43 ` [patch 7/7] powerpc: lockless get_user_pages_fast npiggin
2008-06-05  9:43   ` npiggin
2008-06-09  8:32   ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-09  8:32     ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-10  3:15     ` Nick Piggin
2008-06-10  3:15       ` Nick Piggin
2008-06-10 19:00   ` Christoph Lameter
2008-06-10 19:00     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-06-11  3:18     ` Nick Piggin
2008-06-11  3:18       ` Nick Piggin
2008-06-11  4:40       ` Christoph Lameter
2008-06-11  4:40         ` Christoph Lameter
2008-06-11  4:41         ` Christoph Lameter
2008-06-11  4:41           ` Christoph Lameter
2008-06-11  4:49           ` Nick Piggin
2008-06-11  4:49             ` Nick Piggin
2008-06-11  6:06             ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-11  6:06               ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-11  6:24               ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2008-06-11  6:24                 ` Nick Piggin
2008-06-11  6:50                 ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-11  6:50                   ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-11 23:20               ` Christoph Lameter
2008-06-11 23:20                 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-06-11  4:47         ` Nick Piggin
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 11:53   ` Nick Piggin
2008-06-05 17:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-05 17:33   ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-06  0:08   ` Nick Piggin
2008-06-06  0:08     ` Nick Piggin
2008-06-06 21:32 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-06-06 21:32   ` Peter Zijlstra

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