Re: [patch 7/7] powerpc: lockless get_user_pages_fast

Andrew Morton
2008-06-11T06:50:17Z

On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:24:04 +0200 Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> wrote:

> 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.
>

-mm is looking awfully peripheral nowadays. I really need to get my
linux-next act together. Instead I'll be taking all next week off.
nyer nyer.

>
> > > 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.

Sigh. I feel guilty when spending time merging (for example)
random-usb-patches-in-case-greg-misses-them, but such is life. Some
help reviewing things would be nice.

A lot of my review is now of the "how the heck is anyone to understand
this in a year's time if I can't understand it now" variety, but I hope
that's useful...