linux-kernel - Re: mmotm 2015-01-22-15-04: qemu failure due to 'mm: memcontrol: remove unnecessary soft limit tree node test'

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Date:	Sun, 25 Jan 2015 16:36:28 -0500
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Cc:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	mm-commits@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, sfr@...b.auug.org.au, mhocko@...e.cz
Subject: Re: mmotm 2015-01-22-15-04: qemu failure due to 'mm: memcontrol: remove unnecessary soft limit tree node test'

On Sat, 24 Jan 2015 02:16:23 -0500, Johannes Weiner said:

> I would generally agree, but this code, which implements a userspace
> interface, is already grotesquely inefficient and heavyhanded.  It's
> also superseded in the next release, so we can just keep this simple
> at this point.

Wait, what?  Userspace interface that's superceded in the next release?

I *hope* this was intended as "Yes,it's ugly in v4 of the patch, v5 is
a lot cleaner..."

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