From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hans Reiser Subject: Re: reiser4 went into -mm Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 11:18:19 -0700 Message-ID: <4126406B.8050702@namesys.com> References: <20040820074707.9222515CC5@mail03.powweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <20040820074707.9222515CC5@mail03.powweb.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: David Dabbs Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com, Alexander Zarochentcev David Dabbs wrote: >>Andrew Morton was very helpful in the merge, and gave useful advise >>about our changes to the core kernel. >> >>Now things get political. If you guys on this list want to see reiser4 >>get into mainline, you'll need to watch for the appropriate moments and >>push for it to happen, because reiser4 is fast, and that means >>threatening to many, and the knives are going to come out. >> >>Of course, we still need to get to where we have been in -mm and there >>have been no valid bug reports for a week before I think we can ask to >>go into the official kernel..... >> >>Hans >> >> > >Hans, the notes akpm put into the 2.6.8.1-mm2 ChangeLog include the following: > >If you see results that are much different from those at >www.namesys.com/benchmarks.html, let us know. > >but the latest benchmarks available there are from March against 2.6.5-rc2. >Does this mean that neither R4 nor other filesystems' performance has changed since then or do you expect potential users to run their own updated benchmarks? > >David > > > > > If they have changed, I want to know about it.....;-) David, we should work on getting your key comparison patch evaluated. Zam, please look into it when you can, and send me your todo list because I fear it is very full.