Re: Andrea VM changes

[Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>]

On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 04:00:49PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sat, 30 Aug 2003, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 12:13:57PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > > 
> > > > You need to integrate with -aa on the VM.  It has been hard enough for
> > > > Andrea to get his stuff in, I doubt you will fair any better.
> > > 
> > > Thats because I never received separate patches which make sense one by
> > > one.  Most of Andreas changes are all grouped into few big patches that
> > > only he knows the mess. That is not the way to merge things.
> > > 
> > > I want to work out with him after I merge other stuff to address that.
> > 
> > that's true for only one patch, the others are pretty orthogonal after
> > Andrew helped splitting them:
> > 
> > 
> > 05_vm_03_vm_tunables-4
> > 05_vm_05_zone_accounting-2
> > 05_vm_06_swap_out-3
> > 05_vm_07_local_pages-4
> > 05_vm_08_try_to_free_pages_nozone-4
> > 05_vm_09_misc_junk-3
> > 05_vm_10_read_write_tweaks-3
> > 05_vm_13_activate_page_cleanup-1
> > 05_vm_15_active_page_swapout-1
> > 05_vm_16_active_free_zone_bhs-1
> > 05_vm_17_rest-10
> 
> Can you please split the watermark changes from 05_vm_rest-10 and send me
> that ? (no waitqueue changes, no page wakeup logic changes)

yes sure. (I have it already splitted here but I'm unsure if it's
uptodate or/and if still applies:

	http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.15pre6/zone-watermarks-1

so don't use it, I'll send a new one).

> As I said previously, lets start with the page reclaiming logic changes 
> first, which include:
> 
> 05_vm_03_vm_tunables-4
> 05_vm_05_zone_accounting-2
> 05_vm_06_swap_out-3 
> 
> And the necessary (ONLY watermark stuff AFAICS) from 05_vm_rest-10. 
> 
> Right?

Looks fine to me. Many thanks!

Andrea

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