Re: [PATCH] mm: migrate: Return false instead of -EAGAIN for dummy functions

[Vlastimil Babka]

On 09/21/2016 10:11 AM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Wed 21-09-16 06:06:44, Chen Gang wrote:
> > On 9/20/16 16:09, Michal Hocko wrote:
> [...]
>
> skipping the large part of the email because I do not have a spare time
> to discuss this.
>
> > > So what is the point of this whole exercise? Do not take me wrong, this
> > > area could see some improvements but I believe that doing int->bool
> > > change is not just the right thing to do and worth spending both your
> > > and reviewers time.
> >
> > I am not quite sure about that.
>
> Maybe you should listen to the feedback your are getting. I do not think
> I am not the first one here.
>
> Look, MM surely needs some man power. There are issues to be solved,
> patches to review. Doing the cleanups is really nice but there are more
> serious problems to solve first. If you want to help then starting
> with review would be much much more helpful and hugely appreciated. We
> are really lacking people there a _lot_. Just generating more work for
> reviewers with something that doesn't make any real difference in the
> runtime is far less helpful IMHO.

Agreed, thanks.

> Thanks.