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From: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Move away from non-failing small allocations
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 18:36:02 -0400
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On 03/11/2015 04:54 PM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> The second patch is the first step in the transition plan. It changes
> the default but it is NOT an upstream material. It is aimed for brave
> testers who can cope with failures. I have talked to Andrew and he
> was willing to keep that patch in mmotm tree. It would be even better
> to have this in linux-next because the testing coverage would be even
> bigger. Dave Chinner has also shown an interest to integrate this into
> his xfstest farm. It would be great if Fenguang could add it into the
> zero testing project too (if the pushing the patch into linux-next
> would be too controversial).

Stuff in mmotm automatically end up in linux-next.


Thanks,
Sasha