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

Nick Piggin
2008-06-11T06:24:04Z

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.

> > 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.