From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757604AbYA2C53 (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:57:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753052AbYA2C5V (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:57:21 -0500 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:54884 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752410AbYA2C5U (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:57:20 -0500 Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:57:01 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Matthew Wilcox Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Pull request: DMA pool updates Message-Id: <20080128185701.752fe2c8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20080129024524.GA20198@parisc-linux.org> References: <20080129001147.GD31101@parisc-linux.org> <20080128170734.3101b6aa.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080129024524.GA20198@parisc-linux.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.1 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:45:25 -0700 Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > afaik these patches have been tested by nobody except thyself? > > I've tested them myself, then I sent them to the perf team who ran the > (4 hour long) benchmark, and they reported success. As with many patches > these days, they sank into a pit of indifference. I like to think that's because everyone is all fired up about bugfixes and the regression reports. heh. It's a simple matter for me to add another git tree, which gets things a bit more exposure. > Perhaps I need to > take a leaf from my former government's book and sex up my patch > descriptions a bit. Well these two pulls came with effectively no description at all. Put yourself in Linus's position...