Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750957AbaFVDcR (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Jun 2014 23:32:17 -0400 Received: from mail.phunq.net ([184.71.0.62]:35710 "EHLO starbase.phunq.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750752AbaFVDcP convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Jun 2014 23:32:15 -0400 From: Daniel Phillips To: James Bottomley Cc: =?utf-8?B?THVrw6HFoSBDemVybmVy?= , Pavel Machek , Dave Chinner , , , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [RFC] Tux3 for review Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 20:32:03 -0700 User-Agent: Trojita/0.4.1; Qt/4.8.6; X11; Linux; Ubuntu 14.04 LTS MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1403378941.2177.24.camel@dabdike.int.hansenpartnership.com> References: <5376B273.7000800@partner.samsung.com> <20140518235555.GC18954@dastard> <537AA802.408@phunq.net> <20140520031802.GF18954@dastard> <20140613103216.GA4589@amd.pavel.ucw.cz> <02d3b094-808c-4b17-903d-1280d451704b@phunq.net> <20140613202039.GA23872@amd.pavel.ucw.cz> <1402932354.2197.61.camel@dabdike.int.hansenpartnership.com> <20140619082129.GA4309@xo-6d-61-c0.localdomain> <1403378941.2177.24.camel@dabdike.int.hansenpartnership.com> Organization: tux3.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Saturday, June 21, 2014 12:29:01 PM PDT, James Bottomley wrote: > On Thu, 2014-06-19 at 14:58 -0700, Daniel Phillips wrote: >> We already removed 450 lines of core kernel workarounds from Tux3 with an >> approach that was literally cut and pasted from one of Dave's >> emails. Then >> Dave changed his mind. Now the Tux3 team has been assigned a research >> project to improve core kernel writeback instead of simply adapting the >> approach that is already proven to work well enough. That is a rather >> blatant example of "perfect is the enemy of good enough". Please read the >> thread. > > That's a bit disingenuous: the concern has always been how page forking > interacted with writeback. It's not new, it was one of the major things > brought up at LSF 14 months ago, so you weren't just assigned this. [citation needed] Regards, Daniel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/