From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeremy Allison Subject: Re: [Lsf-pc] [LSF/MM TOPIC] async buffered diskio read for userspace apps Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 08:48:57 -0800 Message-ID: <20150119164857.GC12308@jeremy-HP> References: <20150115223157.GB25884@quack.suse.cz> <20150116165506.GA10856@samba2> <20150119071218.GA9747@jeremy-HP> <1421652849.2080.20.camel@HansenPartnership.com> <54BD234F.3060203@kernel.dk> <1421682581.2080.22.camel@HansenPartnership.com> Reply-To: Jeremy Allison Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jens Axboe , Milosz Tanski , Volker Lendecke , Jan Kara , Christoph Hellwig , linux-mm@kvack.org, "linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" , lsf-pc@lists.linux-foundation.org, Jeremy Allison To: James Bottomley Return-path: Received: from fn.samba.org ([216.83.154.106]:50311 "EHLO mail.samba.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751535AbbASQsx (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Jan 2015 11:48:53 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1421682581.2080.22.camel@HansenPartnership.com> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 07:49:41AM -0800, James Bottomley wrote: > > For fio, it likely doesn't matter. Most people download the repository > and compile it themselves when building the tool. In that case, there's > no licence violation anyway (all GPL issues, including technical licence > incompatibility, manifest on distribution not on use). It is a problem > for the distributors, but they're well used to these type of self > inflicted wounds. That's true, but it is setting a bear-trap for distributors. Might be better to keep the code repositories separate so at lease people have a *chance* of noticing there's a problem here. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pa0-f47.google.com (mail-pa0-f47.google.com [209.85.220.47]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E926F6B0032 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2015 11:48:56 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-pa0-f47.google.com with SMTP id kq14so39814359pab.6 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2015 08:48:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.samba.org (fn.samba.org. [2001:470:1f05:1a07::1]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id qf1si1094585pab.192.2015.01.19.08.48.53 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 19 Jan 2015 08:48:54 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 08:48:57 -0800 From: Jeremy Allison Subject: Re: [Lsf-pc] [LSF/MM TOPIC] async buffered diskio read for userspace apps Message-ID: <20150119164857.GC12308@jeremy-HP> Reply-To: Jeremy Allison References: <20150115223157.GB25884@quack.suse.cz> <20150116165506.GA10856@samba2> <20150119071218.GA9747@jeremy-HP> <1421652849.2080.20.camel@HansenPartnership.com> <54BD234F.3060203@kernel.dk> <1421682581.2080.22.camel@HansenPartnership.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1421682581.2080.22.camel@HansenPartnership.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: James Bottomley Cc: Jens Axboe , Milosz Tanski , Volker Lendecke , Jan Kara , Christoph Hellwig , linux-mm@kvack.org, "linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" , lsf-pc@lists.linux-foundation.org, Jeremy Allison On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 07:49:41AM -0800, James Bottomley wrote: > > For fio, it likely doesn't matter. Most people download the repository > and compile it themselves when building the tool. In that case, there's > no licence violation anyway (all GPL issues, including technical licence > incompatibility, manifest on distribution not on use). It is a problem > for the distributors, but they're well used to these type of self > inflicted wounds. That's true, but it is setting a bear-trap for distributors. Might be better to keep the code repositories separate so at lease people have a *chance* of noticing there's a problem here. -- 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/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org