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From: Andrea Righi <andrea-oIIqvOZpAevzfdHfmsDf5w@public.gmane.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@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: Thu, 5 May 2011 00:09:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110504220922.GA4811@linux.develer.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110504144411.7f32c00c.akpm-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org>

On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 02:44:11PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 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?

OK. :)

-Andrea

      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-05-04 22:09 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
     [not found]     ` <20110504144411.7f32c00c.akpm-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org>
2011-05-04 22:09       ` Andrea Righi [this message]

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