Re: [patch 149/262] mm/vmscan: throttle reclaim until some writeback completes if congested

Matthew Wilcox
2021-11-06T22:48:51Z

On Sat, Nov 06, 2021 at 02:12:02PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 6, 2021 at 1:49 PM Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > This workflow can result in more conflicts for me than what Andrew
> > used to do ("send against current linus tip"), but it means that when
> > conflicts happen, they get all the merge resolution help that git
> > gives you, and hopefully what gets tested (over the months that it can
> > be in -mm) is closer to what gets sent to me.
>
> .. and resolving the conflicts (none of which looked bad), I think
> that part of the resolution ends up doing very similar things to your
> fixup patch.

Reviewed what you did in the merge commit, looks good to me. And I've
learned I need to run git log --cc instead of -p in order to see all
changes to a file.