From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263596AbUEWVPr (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 May 2004 17:15:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263600AbUEWVPr (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 May 2004 17:15:47 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([207.189.100.168]:8581 "EHLO holomorphy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263596AbUEWVPq (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 May 2004 17:15:46 -0400 Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 14:11:54 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Horst von Brand , Linus Torvalds , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.7-rc1 Message-ID: <20040523211154.GC1833@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Jeff Garzik , Horst von Brand , Linus Torvalds , Kernel Mailing List References: <200405231619.i4NGJBe18903@pincoya.inf.utfsm.cl> <40B0EE6C.70400@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <40B0EE6C.70400@pobox.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 02:33:16PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Linux has a tradition of completely rewriting the VM in the middle of a > stable series, why not again? :) > /me is joking, but similarly annoyed... > The VM, like the rest of the kernel, will _always_ be a work in > progress. A stable series should freeze us for bug fixing and > stabilization... I wouldn't qualify either of the major VM patch series merged as rewrites. I saw: (1) move unmapping function/helpers to different algorithm to save space (2) NUMA API and support functions At the risk of trivializing the large amount of work that went into minimizing the risk of merging these things, the VM hasn't been changed in any fundamental way by either of them. -- wli