From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, neilb@suse.de,
a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, michaelc@cs.wisc.edu, emunson@mgebm.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/17] Swap-over-NBD without deadlocking V10
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 12:10:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120514111058.GC29102@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120511142932.af7851bd.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 02:29:32PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 11 May 2012 17:23:39 -0400 (EDT)
> David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
>
> > From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
> > Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 16:45:40 +0100
> >
> > > From my point of view, the ideal would be that all the patches go
> > > through akpm's tree or yours but that probably will cause merge
> > > difficulties.
> > >
> > > Any recommendations?
> >
> > I know there will be networking side conflicts very soon, it's not a
> > matter of 'if' but 'when'.
> >
> > But the trick is that I bet the 'mm' and 'slab' folks are in a similar
> > situation.
> >
> > In any event I'm more than happy to take it all in my tree.
>
> I guess either is OK. The main thing is to get it all reviewed and
> tested, after all.
>
> I can take all the patches once it's all lined up and everyone is
> happy. If the net bits later take significant damage then I can squirt them
> at you once the core MM bits are merged. That would give you a few
> days to check them over and get them into Linus. If that's a problem,
> we can hold the net bits over for a cycle.
>
> That's all assuming that the core MM parts are mergeable without the
> net parts being merged. I trust that's the case!
I expect it to be the case as the series is (or at least should be)
bisect safe. If there is a conflict of some sort, just cut off at that
point and it should be fine until it gets fixed up.
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Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
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Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-10 13:44 [PATCH 00/17] Swap-over-NBD without deadlocking V10 Mel Gorman
2012-05-10 13:44 ` [PATCH 01/17] mm: Serialize access to min_free_kbytes Mel Gorman
2012-05-10 13:44 ` [PATCH 02/17] mm: sl[au]b: Add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages Mel Gorman
2012-05-10 13:44 ` [PATCH 03/17] mm: slub: Optimise the SLUB fast path to avoid pfmemalloc checks Mel Gorman
2012-05-10 13:44 ` [PATCH 04/17] mm: Introduce __GFP_MEMALLOC to allow access to emergency reserves Mel Gorman
2012-05-10 13:44 ` [PATCH 05/17] mm: allow PF_MEMALLOC from softirq context Mel Gorman
2012-05-11 4:39 ` David Miller
2012-05-14 10:02 ` Mel Gorman
2012-05-15 13:07 ` Mel Gorman
2012-05-10 13:44 ` [PATCH 06/17] mm: Only set page->pfmemalloc when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS was used Mel Gorman
2012-05-10 13:45 ` [PATCH 07/17] mm: Ignore mempolicies when using ALLOC_NO_WATERMARK Mel Gorman
2012-05-10 13:45 ` [PATCH 08/17] net: Introduce sk_allocation() to allow addition of GFP flags depending on the individual socket Mel Gorman
2012-05-11 4:49 ` David Miller
2012-05-11 14:12 ` Mel Gorman
2012-05-10 13:45 ` [PATCH 09/17] netvm: Allow the use of __GFP_MEMALLOC by specific sockets Mel Gorman
2012-05-11 4:50 ` David Miller
2012-05-10 13:45 ` [PATCH 10/17] netvm: Allow skb allocation to use PFMEMALLOC reserves Mel Gorman
2012-05-11 4:57 ` David Miller
2012-05-11 14:32 ` Mel Gorman
2012-05-11 14:42 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-11 15:07 ` Mel Gorman
2012-05-11 21:17 ` David Miller
2012-05-10 13:45 ` [PATCH 11/17] netvm: Propagate page->pfmemalloc to skb Mel Gorman
2012-05-10 13:45 ` [PATCH 12/17] netvm: Propagate page->pfmemalloc from netdev_alloc_page " Mel Gorman
2012-05-11 5:01 ` David Miller
2012-05-11 14:46 ` Mel Gorman
2012-05-10 13:45 ` [PATCH 13/17] netvm: Set PF_MEMALLOC as appropriate during SKB processing Mel Gorman
2012-05-11 5:03 ` David Miller
2012-05-10 13:45 ` [PATCH 14/17] mm: Micro-optimise slab to avoid a function call Mel Gorman
2012-05-10 13:45 ` [PATCH 15/17] nbd: Set SOCK_MEMALLOC for access to PFMEMALLOC reserves Mel Gorman
2012-05-10 13:45 ` [PATCH 16/17] mm: Throttle direct reclaimers if PF_MEMALLOC reserves are low and swap is backed by network storage Mel Gorman
2012-05-10 13:45 ` [PATCH 17/17] mm: Account for the number of times direct reclaimers get throttled Mel Gorman
2012-05-10 17:17 ` [PATCH 00/17] Swap-over-NBD without deadlocking V10 Mike Christie
2012-05-11 5:04 ` David Miller
2012-05-11 15:45 ` Mel Gorman
2012-05-11 21:23 ` David Miller
2012-05-11 21:29 ` Andrew Morton
2012-05-14 11:10 ` Mel Gorman [this message]
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