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Date:	Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:33:34 +0900
From:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, npiggin@...e.de,
	hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk, avi@...hat.com,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, aarcange@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] ZERO PAGE again v4.

On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:12:45 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:51:37 +0900
> KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:01:34 +0900
> > KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > Rebased onto  mm-of-the-moment snapshot 2009-07-15-20-57.
> > > And modifeied to make vm_normal_page() eat FOLL_NOZERO, directly.
> > > 
> > > Any comments ?
> > > 
> > 
> > A week passed since I posted this.
> 
> I'm catching up at a rate of 2.5 days per day.  Am presently up to July
> 16.  I never know whether to work through it forwards or in reverse.
> 
> Geeze you guys send a lot of stuff.  Stop writing new code and go fix
> some bugs!
> 
In these months, I myself don't write any new feature.
I'm now in stablization stage.
(ZERO_PAGE is not new feature in my point of view.)

Remainig big one is Direce-I/O v.s. fork() fix.

> > It's no problem to keep updating this
> > and post again. But if anyone have concerns, please notify me.
> > I'll reduce CC: list in the next post.
> 
> ok...
> 
I'll postpone v5 until the next week.

Thank you for your efforts.

BTW, when I post new version, should I send a reply to old version to say
"this version is obsolete" ? Can it make your work easier ? like following.

Re:[PATCH][Obsolete] new version weill come (Was.....)

I tend to update patches until v5 or more until merged.

Regards,
-Kame

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