From: Andrew Morton <akpm-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org>
To: Andrea Righi <andrea-oIIqvOZpAevzfdHfmsDf5w@public.gmane.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david-FqsqvQoI3Ljby3iVrkZq2A@public.gmane.org>,
Mike Frysinger <vapier-aBrp7R+bbdUdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>,
Al Viro <viro-RmSDqhL/yNMiFSDQTTA3OLVCufUGDwFn@public.gmane.org>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd-r2nGTMty4D4@public.gmane.org>,
linux-fsdevel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
linux-api-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] fadvise: introduce POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED_FS
Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 14:44:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110504144411.7f32c00c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1303928027-5100-1-git-send-email-andrea-oIIqvOZpAevzfdHfmsDf5w@public.gmane.org>
On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 20:13:47 +0200
Andrea Righi <andrea-oIIqvOZpAevzfdHfmsDf5w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Introduce a new fadvise flag to drop page cache pages of a single
> filesystem.
I'm going to object to this on general principle. We shouldn't toss
new features into the kernel API just because we can. Each feature
needs a really good argument to justify its inclusion, and I don't
believe that the case has been made for this feature.
IOW, who's going to die if we don't merge it?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-04 21:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-27 18:13 [PATCH v2] fadvise: introduce POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED_FS Andrea Righi
[not found] ` <1303928027-5100-1-git-send-email-andrea-oIIqvOZpAevzfdHfmsDf5w@public.gmane.org>
2011-04-27 18:25 ` Mike Frysinger
2011-04-28 9:35 ` Andrea Righi
2011-04-27 18:33 ` Matthew Wilcox
[not found] ` <20110427183308.GA16716-6jwH94ZQLHl74goWV3ctuw@public.gmane.org>
2011-04-27 18:39 ` Mike Frysinger
2011-04-27 18:47 ` Matthew Wilcox
[not found] ` <20110427184756.GB16716-6jwH94ZQLHl74goWV3ctuw@public.gmane.org>
2011-04-27 18:49 ` Mike Frysinger
2011-04-28 9:29 ` Andrea Righi
2011-05-04 21:44 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
[not found] ` <20110504144411.7f32c00c.akpm-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org>
2011-05-04 22:09 ` Andrea Righi
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