Re: 2.6.26-rc5-mm2

Andrew Morton
2008-06-10T09:15:48Z

On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:48:21 +1000 Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote:

> Is the plan to merge all reclaim changes in a big hit, rather than
> slowly trickle in the different independent changes?

It's going to take a lot of work to get such extensive reclaim changes
landed.

We need to convince ourselves that these changes are the right way to
fix <whatever they fix>. We need to review and test the crap out of
them. The 64-bit-only thing is a concern. I wonder about whether
we've "fixed" anon pages but didn't do anything about file-backed
mapped pages. Plus all the other stuff, plus stuff we haven't thought
of yet.

It's huge.