netdev - Re: [PATCH 00/17] Swap-over-NBD without deadlocking V10

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Message-ID: <20120511154540.GV11435@suse.de>
Date:	Fri, 11 May 2012 16:45:40 +0100
From:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, 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 01:04:45AM -0400, David Miller wrote:
> 
> Ok, I'm generally happy with the networking parts.
> 

Great!

> If you address my feedback I'll sign off on it.
> 

I didn't get through all the feedback and respond today but I will
during next week, get it retested and reposted. Thanks a lot.

> The next question is whose tree this stuff goes through :-)

Yep, that's going to be entertaining.  I had structured this so it could
go through multiple trees but it's not perfect. If I switch patches 14
(slab-related) and 15 (network related), then it becomes

Patch 1 gets dropped after the next merge window as it'll be in mainline anyway
Patch 2-3 goes through Pekka's sl*b tree
Patch 4-7 goes through akpm
Patch 8-14 goes through linux-net
Patch 15-17 goes through akpm

That sort of multiple staging is messy though and correctness would depend
on what order linux-next pulls trees from. I think I should be able to
move 15-17 before linux-net which might simplify things a little although
that would be a bit odd from a bisection perspective.

>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?

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
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