linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] sparse

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Message-ID: <de99ae79-8d68-e8d6-5243-085fd106e1e5@intel.com>
Date:   Mon, 2 Jul 2018 09:20:40 -0700
From:   Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
To:     Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...cle.com>,
        steven.sistare@...cle.com, daniel.m.jordan@...cle.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com, mhocko@...e.com,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, dan.j.williams@...el.com, jack@...e.cz,
        jglisse@...hat.com, jrdr.linux@...il.com, bhe@...hat.com,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, vbabka@...e.cz,
        richard.weiyang@...il.com, rientjes@...gle.com, mingo@...nel.org,
        osalvador@...hadventures.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] sparse_init rewrite

On 07/01/2018 07:04 PM, Pavel Tatashin wrote:
>  include/linux/mm.h  |   9 +-
>  mm/sparse-vmemmap.c |  44 ++++---
>  mm/sparse.c         | 279 +++++++++++++++-----------------------------
>  3 files changed, 125 insertions(+), 207 deletions(-)

FWIW, I'm not a fan of rewrites, but this is an awful lot of code to remove.

I assume from all the back-and-forth, you have another version
forthcoming.  I'll take a close look through that one.