From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail191.messagelabs.com (mail191.messagelabs.com [216.82.242.19]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAC59900086 for ; Sun, 17 Apr 2011 13:50:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: by wwi36 with SMTP id 36so4242508wwi.26 for ; Sun, 17 Apr 2011 10:50:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4DAB26F6.40407@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 19:44:22 +0200 From: Marco Stornelli MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/12] IO-less dirty throttling v7 References: <20110416132546.765212221@intel.com> <4DAA976A.3080007@gmail.com> <20110417093048.GA4027@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20110417093048.GA4027@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Wu Fengguang Cc: Andrew Morton , Jan Kara , Christoph Hellwig , Trond Myklebust , Dave Chinner , Theodore Ts'o , Chris Mason , Peter Zijlstra , Mel Gorman , Rik van Riel , KOSAKI Motohiro , Greg Thelen , Minchan Kim , Vivek Goyal , Andrea Righi , Balbir Singh , linux-mm , "linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" , LKML Il 17/04/2011 11:30, Wu Fengguang ha scritto: > On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 03:31:54PM +0800, Marco Stornelli wrote: >> Il 16/04/2011 15:25, Wu Fengguang ha scritto: >>> Andrew, >>> >>> This revision undergoes a number of simplifications, cleanups and fixes. >>> Independent patches are separated out. The core patches (07, 08) now have >>> easier to understand changelog. Detailed rationals can be found in patch 08. >>> >>> In response to the complexity complaints, an introduction document is >>> written explaining the rationals, algorithm and visual case studies: >>> >>> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/wfg/writeback/slides/smooth-dirty-throttling.pdf >> >> It'd be great if you wrote a summary in the kernel documentation. > > Perhaps not in this stage. That will only frighten people away I'm > afraid. The main concerns now are "why the complexities?". People at > this time perhaps won't bother looking into any lengthy documents at > all. > For the moment ok if you think we are in a not-ready-for-mainline yet. But for the final version the documentation would be welcome, maybe with the pdf as reference. The documentation is always the last thing but it's important! :) Marco -- 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