From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
chris.mason@oracle.com, matthew@wil.cx, ngupta@vflare.org,
hannes@cmpxchg.org, hughd@google.com,
sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com, JBeulich@novell.com,
dan.magenheimer@oracle.com, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [GIT] (frontswap.v16-tag)
Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 10:23:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FC4DBD2.1060807@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFzvAMezd=ph6b0iQ=aqsJm1tOdS6HRRQ6rD8mLCJr_MhQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 05/27/2012 06:29 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> No, the real reason is that for new features like this - features that
> I don't really see myself using personally and that I'm not all that
> personally excited about - I *really* want others to pipe up with
> "yes, we're using this, and yes, we want this to be merged".
I do not like some of the implementation details in the code,
but I have no idea how to do it better.
The functionality, especially zram and frontswap, are very
desirable and would be good to have.
Pulling this code seems like the right thing to do.
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-18 20:42 [GIT] (frontswap.v16-tag) Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
[not found] ` <20120524202221.GA19856@phenom.dumpdata.com>
2012-05-27 22:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-05-29 6:43 ` Jan Beulich
2012-05-29 13:54 ` Seth Jennings
2012-05-29 14:02 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-05-29 20:49 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-06-01 20:51 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-05-29 14:23 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
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