linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans -- pfn_valid

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Message-Id: <20070501011935.a2b90633.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Tue, 1 May 2007 01:19:35 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
Subject: Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans -- pfn_valid_within

On Tue, 01 May 2007 09:11:18 +0100 Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org> wrote:

> Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> >  add-pfn_valid_within-helper-for-sub-max_order-hole-detection.patch
> >  anti-fragmentation-switch-over-to-pfn_valid_within.patch
> >  lumpy-move-to-using-pfn_valid_within.patch
> > 
> > More Mel things, and linkage between Mel-things and lumpy reclaim.  It's here
> > where the patch ordering gets into a mess and things won't improve if
> > moveable-zones and lumpy-reclaim get deferred.  Such a deferral would limit my
> > ability to queue more MM changes for 2.6.23.
> 
> The first of these is really a cleanup and should slide into the stack
> before Mobility and Lumpy.  The other two should then join their
> respective stacks anti-fragmentation-... to Mobility and lumpy-... to
> Lumpy.  I would not expect them to increase linkage that way.
> 

yup, that improved things a bit, thanks.

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