From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761306Ab2BNWHH (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:07:07 -0500 Received: from e36.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.154]:36631 "EHLO e36.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761294Ab2BNWHB (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:07:01 -0500 Message-ID: <1329257161.2340.1.camel@work-vm> Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH v5 0/3] fadvise: support POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE From: John Stultz To: Andrew Morton Cc: Andrea Righi , Minchan Kim , Peter Zijlstra , Johannes Weiner , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , KOSAKI Motohiro , Rik van Riel , Hugh Dickins , Alexander Viro , Shaohua Li , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?P=E1draig?= Brady , Jerry James , Julius Plenz , linux-mm , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, LKML Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:06:01 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20120214133337.9de7835b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <1329006098-5454-1-git-send-email-andrea@betterlinux.com> <20120214133337.9de7835b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.2- Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 12021422-3352-0000-0000-000002A0B82D Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2012-02-14 at 13:33 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:21:35 +0100 > Andrea Righi wrote: > > > The new proposal is to implement POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE as a way to perform a real > > drop-behind policy where applications can mark certain intervals of a file as > > FADV_NOREUSE before accessing the data. > > I think you and John need to talk to each other, please. The amount of > duplication here is extraordinary. Yea. Clearly there is much we can share. I'm still catching up from a conference last week, so I've not had a chance to really look at this yet, but its on my queue for this week. thanks -john From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Stultz Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH v5 0/3] fadvise: support POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:06:01 -0800 Message-ID: <1329257161.2340.1.camel@work-vm> References: <1329006098-5454-1-git-send-email-andrea@betterlinux.com> <20120214133337.9de7835b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Andrea Righi , Minchan Kim , Peter Zijlstra , Johannes Weiner , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , KOSAKI Motohiro , Rik van Riel , Hugh Dickins , Alexander Viro , Shaohua Li , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?P=E1draig?= Brady , Jerry James , Julius Plenz , linux-mm , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, LKML To: Andrew Morton Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20120214133337.9de7835b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2012-02-14 at 13:33 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:21:35 +0100 > Andrea Righi wrote: > > > The new proposal is to implement POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE as a way to perform a real > > drop-behind policy where applications can mark certain intervals of a file as > > FADV_NOREUSE before accessing the data. > > I think you and John need to talk to each other, please. The amount of > duplication here is extraordinary. Yea. Clearly there is much we can share. I'm still catching up from a conference last week, so I've not had a chance to really look at this yet, but its on my queue for this week. thanks -john -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org