From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757264AbWKWLrq (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Nov 2006 06:47:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757279AbWKWLrp (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Nov 2006 06:47:45 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:4042 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757264AbWKWLrp (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Nov 2006 06:47:45 -0500 From: David Howells In-Reply-To: <20061122132008.2691bd9d.akpm@osdl.org> References: <20061122132008.2691bd9d.akpm@osdl.org> <20061122130222.24778.62947.stgit@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> To: Andrew Morton Cc: David Howells , torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] WorkStruct: Shrink work_struct by two thirds X-Mailer: MH-E 8.0; nmh 1.1; GNU Emacs 22.0.50 Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 11:44:33 +0000 Message-ID: <10937.1164282273@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton 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