On Fri, 4 Jun 2010, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: > > In my personal observation > > > > [1/18] for better behavior under cpuset. > > [2/18] for better behavior under cpuset. > > [3/18] for better behavior under mempolicy. > > [4/18] refactoring. > > [5/18] refactoring. > > [6/18] clean up. > > [7/18] changing the deault sysctl value. > > [8/18] completely new logic. > > [9/18] completely new logic. > > [10/18] a supplement for 8,9. > > [11/18] for better behavior under lowmem oom (disable oom kill) > > [12/18] clean up > > [13/18] bugfix for a possible race condition. (I'm not sure about details) > > [14/18] bugfix > > [15/18] bugfix > > [16/18] bugfix > > [17/18] bugfix > > [18/18] clean up. > > > > If distro admins are aggresive, them may backport 1,2,3,7,11 but > > it changes current logic. So, it's distro's decision. > > > > IMHO, without considering HUNKs, the patch order should be > > 13,14,15,16,17,1,2,3,7,11,4,5,6,18,12,8,9,10. > > bugfix -> patches for things making better -> refactoring -> the new implementation. > Thank you for very much for taking the time to look through each individual patch and suggest a different order. If the ordering of the patches will help move us forward, then I'd be extremely happy to do it :) > David, I have no objections to functions itself. But please start from small > good things. "Refactoring" is good but it tend to make backporting > not-straightforward. So, I think it should be done when there is no known issues. > I think you can do. > I'll reorganize the patchset itself without any implementation changes so it flows better and is more appropriately seperated as you suggest. I still believe there is no -rc material within this series (implying there is no -stable material either), but if you believe so then please reply to those patches with the new posting so Andrew can consider pushing it to Linus. Thanks Kame. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>