From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757027AbWKVVUX (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Nov 2006 16:20:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757028AbWKVVUX (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Nov 2006 16:20:23 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.25]:17602 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757005AbWKVVUW (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Nov 2006 16:20:22 -0500 Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 13:20:08 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: David Howells Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] WorkStruct: Shrink work_struct by two thirds Message-Id: <20061122132008.2691bd9d.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20061122130222.24778.62947.stgit@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> References: <20061122130222.24778.62947.stgit@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.6; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 13:02:22 +0000 David Howells wrote: > These patches shrink work_struct by 8 of the 12 words it ordinarily consumes. waaaaaaaay too many rejects for me, sorry. This is quite the worst time in the kernel cycle to be preparing patches like this. Especially when they're against mainline when everyone has so much material pending. Please wait until 2.6.20-rc1, or prepare diffs against next -mm.