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Date:	Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:24:42 +0100
From:	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
To:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
Cc:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@...el.com>,
	Zhang Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 24/25] Re-sort GFP flags and fix whitespace alignment
	for easier reading.

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:08:46AM -0400, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, Mel Gorman wrote:
> 
> > Hmm, doh. This resorted when another patch existed that no longer exists
> > due to difficulties. This patch only fixes whitespace now but I didn't fix
> > the changelog.  I can either move it to the next set altogether where it
> > does resort things or drop it on the grounds whitespace patches just muck
> > with changelogs. I'm leaning towards the latter.
> 
> Where were we with that other patch? I vaguely recalling reworking the
> other patch (gfp_zone I believe) to be calculated at compile time. Did I
> drop this?
> 

No, you didn't. I have a version still that's promising but doesn't currently
work nor has been tested to show it really helps. It's on the long finger
till pass 2 where it'll be high on the list to sort out.

-- 
Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student                          Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick                         IBM Dublin Software Lab
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