From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] WorkStruct: Shrink work_struct by two thirds
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 11:44:33 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <10937.1164282273@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061122132008.2691bd9d.akpm@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> > These patches shrink work_struct by 8 of the 12 words it ordinarily
> > consumes.
>
> waaaaaaaay too many rejects for me, sorry. This is quite the worst time in
> the kernel cycle to be preparing patches like this. Especially when they're
> against mainline when everyone has so much material pending.
>
> Please wait until 2.6.20-rc1, or prepare diffs against next -mm.
I'll wait till -rc1.
I could give you diffs against -mm, but I'm not sure it's help:-/ This sort
of blanket patch really needs to go underneath your patch queue rather than on
top of it, I think.
Of course, it all depends on whether Linus wants to take it at all... Linus?
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-23 11:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-22 13:02 [PATCH 0/5] WorkStruct: Shrink work_struct by two thirds David Howells
2006-11-22 13:02 ` [PATCH 1/5] WorkStruct: Separate delayable and non-delayable events. [try #2] David Howells
2006-11-22 13:02 ` [PATCH 2/5] WorkStruct: Typedef the work function prototype " David Howells
2006-11-22 13:02 ` [PATCH 3/5] WorkStruct: Merge the pending bit into the wq_data pointer " David Howells
2006-11-22 16:32 ` Randy Dunlap
2006-11-22 13:02 ` [PATCH 4/5] WorkStruct: Pass the work_struct pointer instead of context data " David Howells
2006-11-22 15:02 ` [PATCH 0/5] WorkStruct: Shrink work_struct by two thirds David Howells
2006-11-22 21:20 ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-23 11:44 ` David Howells [this message]
2006-11-23 17:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-11-23 20:01 ` David Howells
2006-11-23 21:40 ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-23 21:04 ` David Howells
2006-11-23 14:59 ` David Howells
2006-11-23 16:01 ` Stefan Richter
2006-12-05 19:52 ` GIT pull on work_struct reduction tree David Howells
2006-12-05 20:16 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-05 21:05 ` Stefan Richter
2006-12-05 21:41 ` David Howells
2006-12-06 15:06 ` David Howells
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