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Message-ID: <20070721061720.GA5293@one.firstfloor.org> Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 08:17:20 +0200 From: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, 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 Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 11:13:34PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > 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. What I meant was: iirc he first had a "very complex" patchkit in -mm* (the one with multiple predictors working together); then that got then replaced with a simpler easier to review one and now he's feeding the stuff from the complex one piece by piece back. Just pointed out that the newer stuff was likely already in -mm* for some time, just before one of the simplifications. But I guess more testing cannot hurt anyways. Anyways it's good we're finally making forward progress on this. It has the potential for real nice performance gains. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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