From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail144.messagelabs.com (mail144.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.51]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E8016B0216 for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 10:43:48 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 10:43:20 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 3/8] Cleancache: core ops functions and configuration Message-ID: <20100622144320.GA13324@infradead.org> References: <20100621231939.GA19505@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100621231939.GA19505@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Dan Magenheimer Cc: chris.mason@oracle.com, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, akpm@linux-foundation.org, adilger@Sun.COM, tytso@mit.edu, mfasheh@suse.com, joel.becker@oracle.com, matthew@wil.cx, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, ngupta@vflare.org, jeremy@goop.org, JBeulich@novell.com, kurt.hackel@oracle.com, npiggin@suse.de, dave.mccracken@oracle.com, riel@redhat.com, avi@redhat.com, konrad.wilk@oracle.com List-ID: On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 04:19:39PM -0700, Dan Magenheimer wrote: > [PATCH V3 3/8] Cleancache: core ops functions and configuration > > Cleancache core ops functions and configuration NACK for code that just adds random hooks all over VFS and even individual FS code, does an EXPORT_SYMBOL but doesn't actually introduce any users. And even if it had users these would have to be damn good ones given how invasive it is. So what exactly is this going to help us? Given your affiliation probably something Xen related, so some real use case would be interesting as well instead of just making Xen suck slightly less. -- 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/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org