Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754162AbYFKGYT (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:24:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752450AbYFKGYH (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:24:07 -0400 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:36651 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750964AbYFKGYG (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:24:06 -0400 Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:24:04 +0200 From: Nick Piggin To: Andrew Morton Cc: Christoph Lameter , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, benh@kernel.crashing.org, paulus@samba.org Subject: Re: [patch 7/7] powerpc: lockless get_user_pages_fast Message-ID: <20080611062404.GC11545@wotan.suse.de> References: <20080605094300.295184000@nick.local0.net> <20080605094826.128415000@nick.local0.net> <20080611031822.GA8228@wotan.suse.de> <20080611044902.GB11545@wotan.suse.de> <20080610230622.abed7b55.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080610230622.abed7b55.akpm@linux-foundation.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1097 Lines: 25 On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 11:06:22PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 06:49:02 +0200 Nick Piggin wrote: > > > Can memory management patches go though mm/? I dislike the cowboy ^^^ That should read -mm, of course. > > method of merging things that some other subsystems have adopted :) > > I think I'd prefer that. I may be a bit slow, but we're shoving at > least 100 MM patches through each kernel release and I think I review > things more closely than others choose to. At least, I find problems > and I've seen some pretty wild acked-bys... I wouldn't say you're too slow. You're as close to mm and mm/fs maintainer as we're likely to get and I think it would be much worse to have things merged out-of-band. Even the more peripheral parts like slab or hugetlb. -- 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/