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Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 12:10:58 +0100 From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de> To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> Cc: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, linux-mm@...ck.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, neilb@...e.de, a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl, michaelc@...wisc.edu, emunson@...bm.net Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/17] Swap-over-NBD without deadlocking V10 On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 02:29:32PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 11 May 2012 17:23:39 -0400 (EDT) > David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote: > > > From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de> > > Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 16:45:40 +0100 > > > > > From my point of view, the ideal would be that all the patches go > > > through akpm's tree or yours but that probably will cause merge > > > difficulties. > > > > > > Any recommendations? > > > > I know there will be networking side conflicts very soon, it's not a > > matter of 'if' but 'when'. > > > > But the trick is that I bet the 'mm' and 'slab' folks are in a similar > > situation. > > > > In any event I'm more than happy to take it all in my tree. > > I guess either is OK. The main thing is to get it all reviewed and > tested, after all. > > I can take all the patches once it's all lined up and everyone is > happy. If the net bits later take significant damage then I can squirt them > at you once the core MM bits are merged. That would give you a few > days to check them over and get them into Linus. If that's a problem, > we can hold the net bits over for a cycle. > > That's all assuming that the core MM parts are mergeable without the > net parts being merged. I trust that's the case! I expect it to be the case as the series is (or at least should be) bisect safe. If there is a conflict of some sort, just cut off at that point and it should be fine until it gets fixed up. -- Mel Gorman SUSE Labs -- 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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