Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:24:04 +0200 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: [patch 7/7] powerpc: lockless get_user_pages_fast |
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On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 11:06:22PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 06:49:02 +0200 Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> wrote: > > > Can memory management patches go though mm/? I dislike the cowboy ^^^ That should read -mm, of course.
> > method of merging things that some other subsystems have adopted :) > > I think I'd prefer that. I may be a bit slow, but we're shoving at > least 100 MM patches through each kernel release and I think I review > things more closely than others choose to. At least, I find problems > and I've seen some pretty wild acked-bys...
I wouldn't say you're too slow. You're as close to mm and mm/fs maintainer as we're likely to get and I think it would be much worse to have things merged out-of-band. Even the more peripheral parts like slab or hugetlb.
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