From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161223AbXDWKXg (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Apr 2007 06:23:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161242AbXDWKXg (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Apr 2007 06:23:36 -0400 Received: from hellhawk.shadowen.org ([80.68.90.175]:2007 "EHLO hellhawk.shadowen.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161223AbXDWKXf (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Apr 2007 06:23:35 -0400 Message-ID: <462C8922.7070401@shadowen.org> Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:23:30 +0100 From: Andy Whitcroft User-Agent: Icedove 1.5.0.9 (X11/20061220) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mel Gorman Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] introduce HIGH_ORDER delineating easily reclaimable orders References: <20070421012843.f5a814eb.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070421013210.1bed9ceb.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20070421013210.1bed9ceb.akpm@linux-foundation.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.2.0 OpenPGP: url=http://www.shadowen.org/~apw/public-key Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sat, 21 Apr 2007 01:28:43 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote: > >> It would have been better to have patched page_alloc.c independently, then >> to have used HIGH_ORDER in "lumpy: increase pressure at the end of the inactive >> list". > > Actually that doesn't matter, because I plan on lumping all the lumpy patches > together into one lump. > > I was going to duck patches #2 and #3, such was my outrage. But given that > it's all lined up to be a single patch, followup cleanup patches will fit in > OK. Please. Yes. Its funny how you can get so close to a change that you can no longer see the obvious warts on it. I am actually travelling today, so it'll be tommorrow now. But I'll roll the cleanups and get them to you. I can also offer you a clean drop in lumpy stack with the HIGH_ORDER change pulled out to the top once you are happy. -apw