Re: [PATCH 0/5] WorkStruct: Shrink work_struct by two thirds

David Howells
2006-11-23T11:47:46Z

Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:

> > These patches shrink work_struct by 8 of the 12 words it ordinarily
> > consumes.
>
> waaaaaaaay too many rejects for me, sorry. This is quite the worst time in
> the kernel cycle to be preparing patches like this. Especially when they're
> against mainline when everyone has so much material pending.
>
> Please wait until 2.6.20-rc1, or prepare diffs against next -mm.

I'll wait till -rc1.

I could give you diffs against -mm, but I'm not sure it's help:-/ This sort
of blanket patch really needs to go underneath your patch queue rather than on
top of it, I think.

Of course, it all depends on whether Linus wants to take it at all... Linus?

David