Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755825AbYFKGvL (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:51:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752780AbYFKGu5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:50:57 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:60579 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752920AbYFKGu5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:50:57 -0400 Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:50:17 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Nick Piggin 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: <20080610235017.bf9cca1c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <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> <20080611062404.GC11545@wotan.suse.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.8 (GTK+ 2.12.5; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1691 Lines: 40 On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:24:04 +0200 Nick Piggin wrote: > 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. > -mm is looking awfully peripheral nowadays. I really need to get my linux-next act together. Instead I'll be taking all next week off. nyer nyer. > > > > 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. Sigh. I feel guilty when spending time merging (for example) random-usb-patches-in-case-greg-misses-them, but such is life. Some help reviewing things would be nice. A lot of my review is now of the "how the heck is anyone to understand this in a year's time if I can't understand it now" variety, but I hope that's useful... -- 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/