From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965641AbXEAIUw (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 04:20:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965632AbXEAIUw (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 04:20:52 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([65.172.181.25]:48509 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965641AbXEAIUY (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 04:20:24 -0400 Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 01:19:35 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Andy Whitcroft Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Mel Gorman Subject: Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans -- pfn_valid_within Message-Id: <20070501011935.a2b90633.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <4636F626.7030609@shadowen.org> References: <20070430162007.ad46e153.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4636F626.7030609@shadowen.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 01 May 2007 09:11:18 +0100 Andy Whitcroft wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: > > > add-pfn_valid_within-helper-for-sub-max_order-hole-detection.patch > > anti-fragmentation-switch-over-to-pfn_valid_within.patch > > lumpy-move-to-using-pfn_valid_within.patch > > > > More Mel things, and linkage between Mel-things and lumpy reclaim. It's here > > where the patch ordering gets into a mess and things won't improve if > > moveable-zones and lumpy-reclaim get deferred. Such a deferral would limit my > > ability to queue more MM changes for 2.6.23. > > The first of these is really a cleanup and should slide into the stack > before Mobility and Lumpy. The other two should then join their > respective stacks anti-fragmentation-... to Mobility and lumpy-... to > Lumpy. I would not expect them to increase linkage that way. > yup, that improved things a bit, thanks.