linux-kernel - Re: VM/VFS bug with large amount of memory and file systems?

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Date:	Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:45:42 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@....ac.uk>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	marc.smith@...ail.mcc.edu, Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
Subject: Re: VM/VFS bug with large amount of memory and file systems?

On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:12:38 -0400
Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com> wrote:

> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:46:47 -0400
> > Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com> wrote:
> 
> >> Is the slab defragmentation code in -mm or upstream already
> >> or can I find it on the mailing list?
> > 
> > Is on lkml and linux-mm: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/31/329
> 
> > I think the whole approach is reasonable.  It's mainly a matter of going
> > through it all with a toothcomb 
> 
> I've spent the last two days combing through the patches.

Thanks.  So would it be appropriate for Christoph to add the
thus-far-undefined reviewed-by tag to the next version?

> Except for the one doubt I had (resolved in email), and
> one function name comment (on patch 18/26)

yeah.  Basic rule: if the reviewer had to ask a question then others will
later ask themselves the same question when reading the code.  So this is a
very good indicator that there is a missing code comment.

> the code looks
> good to me.

Cool.
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