From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] mm: Make snapshotting pages for stable writes a
 per-bio operation
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 15:20:19 +0100
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On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 10:01:43AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> A couple of weeks have gone by without further comments about this patch.
> 
> Are you interested in the minor cleanups and added comments, or is the v2 patch
> in -next good enough?
> 
> Apparently Mel Gorman's interested in this patchset too.  Mel: Most of stable
> pages part 2 are already in upstream for 3.9... except this piece.  Are you
> interested in having this piece in 3.9 also?  Or is 3.10 good enough for
> everyone?
> 

My understanding is that it only affects ARM and DEBUG_VM so there is a
relatively small chance of this generating spurious bug reports.  However,
3.9 is still far enough away that I see no good reason to delay this patch
until 3.10 either.

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs