From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754647AbXEAILR (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 04:11:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754694AbXEAILQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 04:11:16 -0400 Received: from hellhawk.shadowen.org ([80.68.90.175]:2065 "EHLO hellhawk.shadowen.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754647AbXEAILO (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 04:11:14 -0400 Message-ID: <4636F626.7030609@shadowen.org> Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 09:11:18 +0100 From: Andy Whitcroft User-Agent: Icedove 1.5.0.9 (X11/20061220) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Mel Gorman Subject: Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans -- pfn_valid_within References: <20070430162007.ad46e153.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20070430162007.ad46e153.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: > 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. -apw