From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763883AbZE0SwZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 May 2009 14:52:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758407AbZE0SwS (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400 Received: from www.sr71.net ([198.145.64.142]:43728 "EHLO blackbird.sr71.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757914AbZE0SwS (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 18/38] C/R: core stuff From: Dave Hansen To: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, containers@lists.linux-foundation.org, xemul@parallels.com In-Reply-To: <20090526193503.GB11909@x200.localdomain> References: <1242968132-1044-1-git-send-email-adobriyan@gmail.com> <1242968132-1044-18-git-send-email-adobriyan@gmail.com> <20090526131644.GA20920@hallyn.com> <20090526193503.GB11909@x200.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 11:52:17 -0700 Message-Id: <1243450337.8071.155.camel@nimitz> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 23:35 +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > The other part, is that I looked at Oren patchset, found quite a lot of > suspicious, broken and unclean places and decided that it'd be faster > to start from scratch because sending patches will overhaul like 85% of > the code. I know the feeling. I get sudden urges to rewrite the whole patch set, but I'm working on getting past them too. :) As long as we have two patch sets, *nobody* is going to get their patches in, that's virtually guaranteed. Just look at the poor I/O controller. The OpenVZ users are almost certainly the most important container and c/r users out there today. Meeting their needs with whatever we come up with should be a top priority and I know I'm counting on you to help us do that. But, I'm having a really hard time culling the OpenVZ user needs from your patch set. If we really need to rewrite 85% of Oren's stuff to meet the OpenVZ needs, then by all means let's do it. I'm even willing to help you. But, I honestly don't know what you need. Can we talk about specifics? -- Dave