From: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: revert "config FS_JOURNAL_INFO"
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:48:02 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B2B33B2.9080900@ct.jp.nec.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b6fcc0a0912172325i34d214d3r11b3bfae7381547f@mail.gmail.com>
Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On 12/18/09, Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> wrote:
>> So we never allow to make memory usage small with providing an option
>> to remove unused area, right?
>
> We certainly allow this if it results in zero loss in functionality.
Thanks for clarifying this topic.
If you don't mind could you please tell me what zero loss is?
I don't think I could get it exactly.
Is it OK that removing journal_info if !CONFIG_BLOCK?
>
>> If I want to reduce memory usage by this way, should I keep
>> this kind of patches out of tree?
>
> Certainly nobody can prohibit you from keeping patch out of tree.
> But if you want something mainlinable, moving ->journal_info
> to fs-specific data structures should do the trick. Or something.
Thanks for the advice, I'll look at this.
Thanks,
Hiroshi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-18 7:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-17 8:31 revert "config FS_JOURNAL_INFO" Alexey Dobriyan
2009-12-17 20:09 ` Andrew Morton
2009-12-18 4:04 ` Hiroshi Shimamoto
2009-12-18 7:25 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2009-12-18 7:48 ` Hiroshi Shimamoto [this message]
2009-12-19 11:51 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
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