From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:57:01 -0800 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Pull request: DMA pool updates Message-Id: <20080128185701.752fe2c8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20080129024524.GA20198@parisc-linux.org> References: <20080129001147.GD31101@parisc-linux.org> <20080128170734.3101b6aa.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080129024524.GA20198@parisc-linux.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Matthew Wilcox Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:45:25 -0700 Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > afaik these patches have been tested by nobody except thyself? > > I've tested them myself, then I sent them to the perf team who ran the > (4 hour long) benchmark, and they reported success. As with many patches > these days, they sank into a pit of indifference. I like to think that's because everyone is all fired up about bugfixes and the regression reports. heh. It's a simple matter for me to add another git tree, which gets things a bit more exposure. > Perhaps I need to > take a leaf from my former government's book and sex up my patch > descriptions a bit. Well these two pulls came with effectively no description at all. Put yourself in Linus's position... -- 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