linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/8] compacting file_ra

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0707202312260.27249@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Fri, 20 Jul 2007 23:13:34 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
cc:	Fengguang Wu <wfg@...l.ustc.edu.cn>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] compacting file_ra_state



On Sat, 21 Jul 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> Haven't the readahead patches already essentially been in -mm* for some time?

They have indeed, and I merged them this week.

> I thought the new patches were some some restructured code, but 
> essentially the tested algorithms?

No, this series is a further cleanup on top of the restructured code, with 
some new features too. The series _looks_ fine to me, but it still makes 
sense to go through -mm, I think.

		Linus
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