Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761033AbXHFCOw (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Aug 2007 22:14:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752964AbXHFCOo (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Aug 2007 22:14:44 -0400 Received: from smtp103.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([209.191.85.213]:36367 "HELO smtp103.mail.mud.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752710AbXHFCOo (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Aug 2007 22:14:44 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com.au; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:X-Accept-Language:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=WztGORQyJpGmAx0Kh2kLMGt70Z0d+ZPLwXN/AlxLXCmebIUzM+dr3BM6AjnbTp0zc9XwTjbRNqG5AzWUKudxFq1+tIzy83N/ArxhHYMM9MHrOttgA+LUe5XH+uAygBRazqjBKPIhz4DcUacA5/y63wZfMsI3FH0rg6fyXUVOhz8= ; X-YMail-OSG: crJtOm4VM1lUB_KLmG969lE1hdgK3orMRDx9XOsUh7cxudTpALYf02CoFRB2MEECfTruV8pUPA-- Message-ID: <46B6840B.8080006@yahoo.com.au> Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 12:14:35 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051007 Debian/1.7.12-1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: david@lang.hm CC: Rene Herman , Daniel Hazelton , Mike Galbraith , Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar , Frank Kingswood , Andi Kleen , Ray Lee , Jesper Juhl , ck list , Paul Jackson , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RFT: updatedb "morning after" problem [was: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23] References: <9a8748490707231608h453eefffx68b9c391897aba70@mail.gmail.com> <20070727030040.0ea97ff7.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1185531918.8799.17.camel@Homer.simpson.net> <200707271345.55187.dhazelton@enter.net> <46AA3680.4010508@gmail.com> <46AAEDEB.7040003@gmail.com> <46AB166A.2000300@gmail.com> <46AC6771.8080000@gmail.com> <46AC9DC5.8070900@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 926 Lines: 28 david@lang.hm wrote: > On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Rene Herman wrote: > >> On 07/29/2007 01:41 PM, david@lang.hm wrote: >> >>> I agree that tinkering with the core VM code should not be done >>> lightly, >>> but this has been put through the proper process and is stalled with no >>> hints on how to move forward. >> >> >> It has not. Concerns that were raised (by specifically Nick Piggin) >> weren't being addressed. > > > I may have missed them, but what I saw from him weren't specific issues, > but instead a nebulous 'something better may come along later' Something better, ie. the problems with page reclaim being fixed. Why is that nebulous? -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/