Re: [PATCH] for_each_zone / for_each_pgdat

Marcelo Tosatti
2002-04-16T05:26:31Z

On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 04:20:58PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> > I won't scream too loud, but I think it's pretty much done right as is.
>
> Regardless if that's the cleaner implementation or not, I don't see
> much the point of merging those cleanups in 2.4 right now: it won't
> make any functional difference to users and it's only a self contained
> code cleanup,

Thats exactly why they can be merged easily: They are self contained code
cleanups, as you said.

> while other patches that make a runtime difference aren't merged yet.

They aren't merged yet because they are intrusive and, in your case (-aa
VM patches), they are not obviously correct and are hard to understand.

We're making progress, though. The writeout scheduling changes (which were
easy for me to understand) have been merged already.