Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 01:26:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 01:26:30 -0400 Received: from perninha.conectiva.com.br ([200.250.58.156]:22800 "HELO perninha.conectiva.com.br") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 01:26:29 -0400 Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 01:22:35 -0300 (BRT) From: Marcelo Tosatti To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: William Lee Irwin III , Linus Torvalds , Rik van Riel , lkml Subject: Re: [PATCH] for_each_zone / for_each_pgdat In-Reply-To: <20020416024458.H26561@dualathlon.random> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 04:20:58PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > > I won't scream too loud, but I think it's pretty much done right as is. > > Regardless if that's the cleaner implementation or not, I don't see > much the point of merging those cleanups in 2.4 right now: it won't > make any functional difference to users and it's only a self contained > code cleanup, Thats exactly why they can be merged easily: They are self contained code cleanups, as you said. > while other patches that make a runtime difference aren't merged yet. They aren't merged yet because they are intrusive and, in your case (-aa VM patches), they are not obviously correct and are hard to understand. We're making progress, though. The writeout scheduling changes (which were easy for me to understand) have been merged already. - 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/