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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@google.com>
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On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 20:18:36 -0700 (PDT) Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> > Is in my queue somewhere.  Could be that by the time I get to it it will
> > need refreshing (again), we'll see.
> > 
> > One open question is the interaction between these changes and with Peter's
> > per-device-dirty-throttling changes.  They also are in my queue somewhere. 
> > Having a 100:1 coder:reviewer ratio doesn't exactly make for swift
> > progress.
> 
> Hmmmm.. How can we help? I can look at some aspects of Peter's per device 
> throttling.

That can't hurt.

I'm more concerned about all of Mel's code in -mm actually.  I don't recall
anyone doing a full review recently and I'm still not sure that this is the
overall direction in which we wish to go.  Last time I asked this everyone
seemed a bit waffly and non-committal.