From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ted Ts'o Subject: Re: clearcache (Was: Re: [git pull] vfs pile 1) Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 17:35:25 -0500 Message-ID: <20110114223525.GA20593@thunk.org> References: <20110113053554.GQ19804@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20110113172557.c016ec51.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <20110113085547.GA7414@infradead.org> <20110113214239.1b23b523.sfr@canb.auug.org.au20110113220039.GF31800@thunk.org> <7aa3a707-4713-41ca-b9f1-327485774722@default> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Stephen Rothwell , Christoph Hellwig , Al Viro , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: Dan Magenheimer Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7aa3a707-4713-41ca-b9f1-327485774722@default> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 01:11:02PM -0800, Dan Magenheimer wrote: > As a result, I've spent most of my > free time over the last three months working on kztmem, which will > hopefully serve the purpose. You'll have to forgive me, but I have absolutely no idea what kztmem is or what it does. Is it just compressed tmem, and hence, something that is only of interest to people using Xen? If so, it's not clear to me how it will help non-Xen people become interested in these patches. Regards, - Ted