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

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Message-ID: <20120720155417.GA2885@burratino>
Date:	Fri, 20 Jul 2012 10:54:17 -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 05:07:21PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

>> 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. ;-)
>
> It's a valid point but I'm going to leave it in for now and see what the
> general opinion is.

Ok.  To be more precise, this patch has two properties that other patches
of the "make later patches easier to apply" class tend not to:

 * it introduces a significant functional change (adding tracepoints)
 * it would have been very easy to skip

Have fun, and sorry for not explaining my reasoning before.

Ciao,
Jonathan
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