From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Artem Bityutskiy Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] VFS: introduce s_dirty accessors Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:04:27 +0300 Message-ID: <1278335067.29620.51.camel@localhost> References: <1276167393-31492-1-git-send-email-dedekind1@gmail.com> Reply-To: dedekind1@gmail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: LKML , Al Viro , Andrew Morton , tytso@mit.edu, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: Linus Torvalds Return-path: Received: from smtp.nokia.com ([192.100.122.233]:52598 "EHLO mgw-mx06.nokia.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752680Ab0GENIW (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jul 2010 09:08:22 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1276167393-31492-1-git-send-email-dedekind1@gmail.com> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 13:56 +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > Hi Linus, >=20 > would it be possible to add the following patch to your tree. I'm try= ing > to lessen amount of useless wake-ups in the kernel, and the 'sync_sup= ers' > thread if one of those kernel threads which wakes up every 5 seconds = to > (mostly) do nothing. >=20 > This is still work in progress, but putting the below patch to your t= ree > would make life easier at the next merge window. This patch just adds= 3 > accessor functions, but no one will use them so fare, so it must be > harmless. This was suggested by Ted and supported by Al: > http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/6/9/216 Linus, I wonder, you did not take this because of the vacation or because you do not like it? --=20 Best Regards, Artem Bityutskiy (=D0=90=D1=80=D1=82=D1=91=D0=BC =D0=91=D0=B8=D1=82=D1=8E= =D1=86=D0=BA=D0=B8=D0=B9) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel= " in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html