From: Andrea Righi <andrea@betterlinux.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] fadvise: introduce POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED_FS
Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 00:09:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110504220922.GA4811@linux.develer.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110504144411.7f32c00c.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 02:44:11PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 20:13:47 +0200
> Andrea Righi <andrea@betterlinux.com> wrote:
>
> > Introduce a new fadvise flag to drop page cache pages of a single
> > filesystem.
>
> I'm going to object to this on general principle. We shouldn't toss
> new features into the kernel API just because we can. Each feature
> needs a really good argument to justify its inclusion, and I don't
> believe that the case has been made for this feature.
>
> IOW, who's going to die if we don't merge it?
OK. :)
-Andrea
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-04 22:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-27 18:13 [PATCH v2] fadvise: introduce POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED_FS Andrea Righi
2011-04-27 18:25 ` Mike Frysinger
2011-04-28 9:35 ` Andrea Righi
2011-04-27 18:33 ` Matthew Wilcox
2011-04-27 18:39 ` Mike Frysinger
2011-04-27 18:47 ` Matthew Wilcox
2011-04-27 18:49 ` Mike Frysinger
2011-04-28 9:29 ` Andrea Righi
2011-05-04 21:44 ` Andrew Morton
2011-05-04 22:09 ` Andrea Righi [this message]
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