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> 7) Do come in suggesting anything I might have forgotten

If you do automated testing of nightly builds of the mainline 2.6 / 2.7
kernels, and point out when they get bigger in consumption, you'll have
a much better chance of convincing people to fix it when the patch in
question is still topical, and fresh in people's minds.

I'd predict that a lot of the issue is just tuning things dynamically 
instead of statically sizing them.

M.