linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 06/34] vmscan: add shrink

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Message-ID: <20120719220721.GE19392@burratino>
Date:	Thu, 19 Jul 2012 17:07:21 -0500
From:	Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@...il.com>
To:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
Cc:	Stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/34] vmscan: add shrink_slab tracepoints

Mel Gorman wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 03:30:17PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

>> It doesn't sound like it fixes a serious issue.
>
> You're right, it doesn't. There are a few patches in this series that
> were applied because they made other patches easier to apply and this is
> one of them.  I should have noted this properly. Unlike other patches of
> this type in the series, this particular one would have been easy to work
> around. How about this as an updated note or would you prefer it was
> dropped entirely?

Some of the other patches of this type made sense, but I'd personally
prefer if this one was dropped, yes.  Though I am just a nobody that
reads patches rather than one of the relevant people. ;-)

Thanks,
Jonathan
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