From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933791AbWKWQBY (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Nov 2006 11:01:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933794AbWKWQBY (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Nov 2006 11:01:24 -0500 Received: from hp3.statik.TU-Cottbus.De ([141.43.120.68]:48848 "EHLO hp3.statik.tu-cottbus.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933791AbWKWQBX (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Nov 2006 11:01:23 -0500 Message-ID: <4565C5D2.3070104@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 17:01:22 +0100 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061030 SeaMonkey/1.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Howells CC: Andrew Morton , torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] WorkStruct: Shrink work_struct by two thirds References: <20061122132008.2691bd9d.akpm@osdl.org> <20061122130222.24778.62947.stgit@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <10039.1164293972@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <10039.1164293972@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org David Howells wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: >> waaaaaaaay too many rejects for me, sorry. ... > Actually... there is a way to do this sort of incrementally, ... > Might that help? I'd say, do it one step, as quickly as you can. And do it on top of -rc1. For now you could test for yourself to rebase your current patchset onto -mm --- just to get an impression of the steps you will have to go through once you have an -rc1 to work with. Maybe it's a bit less trouble if you split the patchset per subsystem, in a similar manner as the various patch collections in -mm are divided per subsystem or subproject. This would also allow you to reuse parts of an -mm rebase from now for a -rc1 rebase later. I.e. go for more parallelism, not for more sequential steps. (...am I naively suggesting, without any own experience in such things.) -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-==- =-== =-=== http://arcgraph.de/sr/