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Message-Id: <20070720230344.bed611b6.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 23:03:44 -0700 From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> To: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, Fengguang Wu <wfg@...l.ustc.edu.cn>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] compacting file_ra_state On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 07:57:06 +0200 Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 09:27:01PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > > > On Sat, 21 Jul 2007, Fengguang Wu wrote: > > > > > > Sorry, forgot to prefix the patch titles with [readahead]. > > > Should I repost? > > > > Not for me, but on the other hand, I'd prefer for this to be in -mm a bit, > > Haven't the readahead patches already essentially been in -mm* for some time? > I thought the new patches were some some restructured code, but essentially > the tested algorithms? > The all-singing all-dancging readahead code was in -mm for maybe a year. Then the much-reduced, feasible-for-merging code was in -mm for several months. It went mainline this week. This new patch series is some optimisation and algorithm tweaking on top of the recently-merged well-tested stuff. Waiting for 2.6.24 is appropriate. - 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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