Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 23:06:39 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: dipankar@in.ibm.com
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Subject: Re: VFS nr_files accounting
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Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>  > I think we should seriously consider these patches for 2.6.16
> 
>  Isn't it a little too late in the 2.6.16 cycle ? I would have
>  liked a little more time in -mm. Anyway, it is Linus' call. 
>  I can refresh the patches and submit against latest mainline
>  if Linus and Andrew want.

I'd view a 2.6.16 merge as relatively low-risk.  My main concern would be
possible breakage of those whacky route-cache workloads.

(I've consoldidated the patches and rebased them against mainline).
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