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

Vlastimil Babka
2021-11-06T21:13:38Z

On 11/6/21 22:12, 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.

If this needed resolution, didn't the resolution exist in -next already?

> So it looks all good.
>
> Famous last words.
>
> Linus
>