From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (d01relay04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.236]) by e3.ny.us.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id lATGJPIj012881 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:19:25 -0500 Received: from d01av02.pok.ibm.com (d01av02.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.216]) by d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v8.7) with ESMTP id lATGJP9Q118386 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:19:25 -0500 Received: from d01av02.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av02.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id lATGJO7V022961 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:19:24 -0500 Message-ID: <474EE667.6050106@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:48:47 +0530 From: Balbir Singh Reply-To: balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: What can we do to get ready for memory controller merge in 2.6.25 References: <474ED005.7060300@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20071129104726.5698321f@cuia.boston.redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20071129104726.5698321f@cuia.boston.redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Rik van Riel Cc: Linux Memory Management List , Andrew Morton , linux kernel mailing list , Nick Piggin , Peter Zijlstra , Hugh Dickins , Lee Schermerhorn , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Pavel Emelianov , YAMAMOTO Takashi , Christoph Lameter , "Martin J. Bligh" , Andy Whitcroft , Srivatsa Vaddagiri List-ID: Rik van Riel wrote: > On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:13:17 +0530 > Balbir Singh wrote: > >> They say better strike when the iron is hot. >> >> Since we have so many people discussing the memory controller, I would >> like to access the readiness of the memory controller for mainline >> merge. > >> At the VM-Summit we decided to try the current double LRU approach for >> memory control. At this juncture in the space-time continuum, I seek >> your support, feedback, comments and help to move the memory controller > > The memory controller code currently in -mm seems fine to me, > especially with the changes that got committed over the last > days making reclaim more efficient. > Yes, I agree. Per zone reclaim and lists have helped make the code better. Credit goes to KAMEZAWA-San for the per zone code and to YAMAMOTO-San for background reclaim. > I don't think there are any bugs left that can be found by > code inspection - only the kind of testing that the mainline > kernel gets might shake out more bugs. > > I would like to see the memory controller code go into the > mainline kernel ASAP. > Excellent, thanks! -- Warm Regards, Balbir Singh Linux Technology Center IBM, ISTL -- 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