linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] respin of PageWaiters patch

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Date:   Wed, 21 Dec 2016 09:30:36 -0800
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>
Cc:     Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Bob Peterson <rpeterso@...hat.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@...hat.com>,
        Andrew Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] respin of PageWaiters patch

On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 7:19 AM, Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com> wrote:
> Seeing as Mel said he would test it (and maybe Dave could as well), I
> will post my patches again. There was a couple of page flags bugs pointed
> out last time, which should be fixed.

So I already had Dave test the previous version, and the preliminary
data was good.

I guess we should just apply it. This is not improved by me dropping
it on the floor once more, and thinking that the problem is gone by
knowing that we can solve it.

But your respun patches don't have commit messages and sign-offs.. Hint hint

                 Linus