From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754725Ab2GaSBp (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Jul 2012 14:01:45 -0400 Received: from rcsinet15.oracle.com ([148.87.113.117]:44652 "EHLO rcsinet15.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754132Ab2GaSBn (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Jul 2012 14:01:43 -0400 Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 13:51:42 -0400 From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Dan Magenheimer , devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, Seth Jennings , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Minchan Kim , Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , Andrew Morton , Robert Jennings , Nitin Gupta Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] promote zcache from staging Message-ID: <20120731175142.GE29533@phenom.dumpdata.com> References: <1343413117-1989-1-git-send-email-sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20120727205932.GA12650@localhost.localdomain> <5016DE4E.5050300@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20120731155843.GP4789@phenom.dumpdata.com> <20120731161916.GA4941@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120731161916.GA4941@kroah.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Source-IP: acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 09:19:16AM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 11:58:43AM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > > So in my head I feel that it is Ok to: > > 1) address the concerns that zcache has before it is unstaged > > 2) rip out the two-engine system with a one-engine system > > (and see how well it behaves) > > 3) sysfs->debugfs as needed > > 4) other things as needed > > > > I think we are getting hung-up what Greg said about adding features > > and the two-engine->one engine could be understood as that. > > While I think that is part of a staging effort to clean up the > > existing issues. Lets see what Greg thinks. > > Greg has no idea, except I want to see the needed fixups happen before > new features get added. Add the new features _after_ it is out of > staging. I think we (that is me, Seth, Minchan, Dan) need to talk to have a good understanding of what each of us thinks are fixups. Would Monday Aug 6th at 1pm EST on irc.freenode.net channel #zcache work for people? > > greg k-h