From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id c8so297640wra.26 for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:08:19 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <170fa0d20801100808x7330589fj8f6884f56a194e76@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:08:18 -0500 From: "Mike Snitzer" Subject: Re: [patch 00/19] VM pageout scalability improvements In-Reply-To: <20080110104155.34b5cede@bree.surriel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080108205939.323955454@redhat.com> <170fa0d20801092039w22584e2fw6821e70157f55cae@mail.gmail.com> <20080110104155.34b5cede@bree.surriel.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Rik van Riel Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Jan 10, 2008 10:41 AM, Rik van Riel wrote: > > On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 23:39:02 -0500 > "Mike Snitzer" wrote: > > > How much trouble am I asking for if I were to try to get your patchset > > to fly on a fairly recent "stable" kernel (e.g. 2.6.22.15)? If > > workable, is such an effort before it's time relative to your TODO? > > Quite a bit :) > > The -mm kernel has the memory controller code, which means the > mm/ directory is fairly different. My patch set sits on top > of that. > > Chances are that once the -mm kernel goes upstream (in 2.6.25-rc1), > I can start building on top of that. > > OTOH, maybe I could get my patch series onto a recent 2.6.23.X with > minimal chainsaw effort. That would be great! I can't speak for others but -mm poses a problem for testing your patchset because it is so bleeding. Let me know if you take the plunge on a 2.6.23.x backport; I'd really appreciate it. Is anyone else interested in consuming a 2.6.23.x backport of Rik's patchset? If so please speak up. > > I see that you have an old port to a FC7-based 2.6.21 here: > > http://people.redhat.com/riel/vmsplit/ > > > > Also, do you have a public git repo that you regularly publish to for > > this patchset? If not a git repo do you put the raw patchset on some > > http/ftp server? > > Up to now I have only emailed out the patches. Since there is demand > for them to be downloadable from somewhere, I'll also start putting > them on http://people.redhat.com/riel/ Great, thanks. Mike -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org