Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Nov 2014 15:39:24 -0500 | From | Johannes Weiner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3.14 102/122] mm + fs: prepare for non-page entries in page cache radix trees |
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On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 04:21:22PM +0000, Mel Gorman wrote: > On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 10:49:37AM -0500, Johannes Weiner wrote: > > I don't see the rest of the thrash-detection patches in this series. > > Without anybody actually planting "entries other than pages" in the > > radix trees, why is this needed in -stable? > > Patches later on in the stable series depended upon the code structure > introduced by this patch even though the thrash-detection stuff was not > backported. It could have been backported without it but then the > patches would look much different from their mainline equivalent.
That makes sense. Thanks!
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