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

Andrew Morton
2006-11-23T20:40:41Z

On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 20:01:11 +0000
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:

> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
>
> > I obviously didn't see how nasty the conflicts were, and I would want it
> > to be not too painful for Andrew. So I could either take it early after
> > 2.6.19 _or_ after Andrew has merged the bulk of his stuff, depending on
> > which way is easier.
>
> Perhaps if Andrew gives me an estimate of what patches he's going to commit
> this time around, I can use those as a base for my patch.
>

Most of the outstanding work is in git trees, so I don't know.

Just merge it late in merge window - we'll work it out.

But please make sure it's all done this time. ie: use grep. Heaps of simple
stuff got missed in the pt_regs conversion.