From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762240AbXGUGOB (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Jul 2007 02:14:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752908AbXGUGNx (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Jul 2007 02:13:53 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:50240 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752329AbXGUGNw (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Jul 2007 02:13:52 -0400 Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 23:13:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Andi Kleen cc: Fengguang Wu , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] compacting file_ra_state In-Reply-To: <20070721055706.GA5097@one.firstfloor.org> Message-ID: References: <20070721035733.951838089@mail.ustc.edu.cn> <20070721035850.977231489@mail.ustc.edu.cn> <384990797.09024@ustc.edu.cn> <20070721055706.GA5097@one.firstfloor.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 21 Jul 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Haven't the readahead patches already essentially been in -mm* for some time? They have indeed, and I merged them this week. > I thought the new patches were some some restructured code, but > essentially the tested algorithms? No, this series is a further cleanup on top of the restructured code, with some new features too. The series _looks_ fine to me, but it still makes sense to go through -mm, I think. Linus