From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758694Ab1KVVjN (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:39:13 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:59352 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758546Ab1KVVjL (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:39:11 -0500 Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:39:09 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: John Stultz Cc: LKML , Robert Love , Christoph Hellwig , Hugh Dickins , Mel Gorman , Dave Hansen , Rik van Riel , Eric Anholt , Jesse Barnes Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] fadvise: Add _VOLATILE,_ISVOLATILE, and _NONVOLATILE flags Message-Id: <20111122133909.ebe72517.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1321997538.6445.90.camel@work-vm> References: <1321932788-18043-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org> <20111122125209.7f70f3a7.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1321997538.6445.90.camel@work-vm> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.0.2 (GTK+ 2.20.1; x86_64-pc-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 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:32:18 -0800 John Stultz wrote: > Very cool! Yea. Dave brought up that the list was fairly inefficient, > but I figured I'd get more feedback on the mechanism before spending too > much time optimizing the structure. I'll look at your mumbletree code > and see how it can be adapted. Other then apparently being a nod to the > "original neo-grunge/indie-rock band from Rochester", is there a story > to the name? :) I was first! I was sure there was some correct term for such a tree in the literature, but I didn't know what it was and the compiler didn't like "*_tree". > Again, I appreciate the feedback! Thanks so much! I note you sneakily deleted the bit about posix/bsd file locking.