From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (d01relay04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.236]) by e5.ny.us.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j5LFwQMg004390 for ; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 11:58:26 -0400 Received: from d01av02.pok.ibm.com (d01av02.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.216]) by d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (8.12.10/NCO/VERS6.7) with ESMTP id j5LFwKW1091340 for ; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 11:58:20 -0400 Received: from d01av02.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av02.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j5LFw94x005008 for ; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 11:58:10 -0400 Subject: Re: sparsemem patches in -mm From: Dave Hansen In-Reply-To: <20050621110006.GH23911@localhost.localdomain> References: <20050621021352.46fc3b81.akpm@osdl.org> <20050621110006.GH23911@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 08:57:56 -0700 Message-Id: <1119369476.27442.30.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Bob Picco Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Andy Whitcroft , Matt Tolentino List-ID: On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 07:00 -0400, Bob Picco wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: [Tue Jun 21 2005, 05:13:52AM EDT] > > > > Could I ask the arch maintainers to review the `sparsemem' patches from -mm, > > please, if you haven't done so... > > > Well ia64 SPARSEMEM hasn't been accepted yet by ia64. I did test > SPARSEMEM with recent -mm patches on ia64 (EXTREME) and x86_64 4 way > Opteron (!EXTREME) with OSDL aim. I think the whole set is just about ready for mainline. If anybody wants a consolidated set of patches that's easier to review, that's no problem. I'd only suggest that we keep the "extreme" stuff in -mm for a couple more releases. It's a pretty clean add-on, and it has only had a very short time in -mm. Bob, would you agree? -- Dave