Re: Pull request: DMA pool updates

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Mon Jan 28 2008 - 21:57:31 EST


On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:45:25 -0700 Matthew Wilcox <matthew@xxxxxx> 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...

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