From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752678Ab1ANWfo (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Jan 2011 17:35:44 -0500 Received: from THUNK.ORG ([69.25.196.29]:44539 "EHLO thunker.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751585Ab1ANWfn (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Jan 2011 17:35:43 -0500 Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 17:35:25 -0500 From: "Ted Ts'o" To: Dan Magenheimer Cc: Stephen Rothwell , Christoph Hellwig , Al Viro , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: clearcache (Was: Re: [git pull] vfs pile 1) Message-ID: <20110114223525.GA20593@thunk.org> Mail-Followup-To: Ted Ts'o , Dan Magenheimer , Stephen Rothwell , Christoph Hellwig , Al Viro , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org References: <20110113053554.GQ19804@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20110113172557.c016ec51.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <20110113085547.GA7414@infradead.org> <20110113214239.1b23b523.sfr@canb.auug.org.au20110113220039.GF31800@thunk.org> <7aa3a707-4713-41ca-b9f1-327485774722@default> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7aa3a707-4713-41ca-b9f1-327485774722@default> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: tytso@thunk.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on thunker.thunk.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 01:11:02PM -0800, Dan Magenheimer wrote: > As a result, I've spent most of my > free time over the last three months working on kztmem, which will > hopefully serve the purpose. You'll have to forgive me, but I have absolutely no idea what kztmem is or what it does. Is it just compressed tmem, and hence, something that is only of interest to people using Xen? If so, it's not clear to me how it will help non-Xen people become interested in these patches. Regards, - Ted