Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 21 Nov 2004 02:38:49 +1100 | From | Anton Blanchard <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Consolidate lots of hugepage code |
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Hi wli,
Any progress on this? If not Id like to suggest we get Davids patch into -mm.
Anton
> Sorry, I don't get complete bugreports myself. If you care to try to > actually fix something (it's doubtful you yourself are the culprit) I'm > still trying to reproduce it myself with long-running database tests. > It's reliably reproducible on the reporters' machines. > > The particular bug is only one piece of evidence. Just asking basic > questions about what was done for architecture code reveals that > all this "development" is not paying proper attention to architecture > code. I merely insist that development toward the end of stabilization > occur prior to that for large feature work. > > And frankly, I'm rather unimpressed with the gravity of the proposed > featurework, particularly in comparison to the stability requirements > of users on typical production systems. > > Nor am I impressed with the quality. The patch presentations have been > messy, the audits (as mentioned above) incomplete, the benefits not > clearly demonstrated, and the code itself not so pretty. Just > respinning the patches so they're properly incremental and the code > somewhat cleaner (e.g. some recent one nested tabs 5 deep or so) > would already remedy a large number of the issues with the featurework. > Once arranged that way the audits' incompleteness can be dealt with by > those with the fortitude to thoroughly audit and/or prior architecture > knowledge to correct the patches for arches they don't deal with properly. > > > -- wli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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