From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx185.postini.com [74.125.245.185]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 328066B13F0 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:06:38 -0500 (EST) Received: from /spool/local by e39.co.us.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:06:36 -0700 Received: from d03relay03.boulder.ibm.com (d03relay03.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.228]) by d03dlp02.boulder.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73DDF3E4004A for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:06:13 -0700 (MST) Received: from d03av06.boulder.ibm.com (d03av06.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.245]) by d03relay03.boulder.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id q1EM67PP121624 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:06:09 -0700 Received: from d03av06.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av06.boulder.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id q1EM6DQx028233 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:06:14 -0700 Message-ID: <1329257161.2340.1.camel@work-vm> Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH v5 0/3] fadvise: support POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE From: John Stultz Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:06:01 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20120214133337.9de7835b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <1329006098-5454-1-git-send-email-andrea@betterlinux.com> <20120214133337.9de7835b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Andrew Morton Cc: Andrea Righi , Minchan Kim , Peter Zijlstra , Johannes Weiner , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , KOSAKI Motohiro , Rik van Riel , Hugh Dickins , Alexander Viro , Shaohua Li , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?P=E1draig?= Brady , Jerry James , Julius Plenz , linux-mm , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, LKML On Tue, 2012-02-14 at 13:33 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:21:35 +0100 > Andrea Righi wrote: > > > The new proposal is to implement POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE as a way to perform a real > > drop-behind policy where applications can mark certain intervals of a file as > > FADV_NOREUSE before accessing the data. > > I think you and John need to talk to each other, please. The amount of > duplication here is extraordinary. Yea. Clearly there is much we can share. I'm still catching up from a conference last week, so I've not had a chance to really look at this yet, but its on my queue for this week. thanks -john -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org