From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752142Ab2GSWHc (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2012 18:07:32 -0400 Received: from mail-yw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.213.46]:63102 "EHLO mail-yw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751479Ab2GSWHa (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2012 18:07:30 -0400 Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 17:07:21 -0500 From: Jonathan Nieder To: Mel Gorman Cc: Stable , LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/34] vmscan: add shrink_slab tracepoints Message-ID: <20120719220721.GE19392@burratino> References: <1342708604-26540-1-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> <1342708604-26540-7-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> <20120719203017.GC19392@burratino> <20120719220411.GZ9222@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120719220411.GZ9222@suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mel Gorman wrote: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 03:30:17PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> It doesn't sound like it fixes a serious issue. > > You're right, it doesn't. There are a few patches in this series that > were applied because they made other patches easier to apply and this is > one of them. I should have noted this properly. Unlike other patches of > this type in the series, this particular one would have been easy to work > around. How about this as an updated note or would you prefer it was > dropped entirely? Some of the other patches of this type made sense, but I'd personally prefer if this one was dropped, yes. Though I am just a nobody that reads patches rather than one of the relevant people. ;-) Thanks, Jonathan