Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751677AbaG3Eya (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2014 00:54:30 -0400 Received: from mail-vc0-f178.google.com ([209.85.220.178]:37052 "EHLO mail-vc0-f178.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750728AbaG3Ey3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2014 00:54:29 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 00:54:28 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Work Queue for btrfs compression writes From: Nick Krause To: Gareth Pye Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 12:37 AM, Gareth Pye wrote: > You've been replied to politely, now listen and do or shut up. > > > On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Nick Krause wrote: >> >> Hey Guys , >> I am new to reading and writing kernel code.I got interested in >> writing code for btrfs as it seems to >> need more work then other file systems and this seems other then >> drivers, a good use of time on my part. >> I interested in helping improving the compression of btrfs by using a >> set of threads using work queues like XFS >> or reads and keeping the page cache after reading compressed blocks as >> these seem to be a great way to improve >> on compression performance mostly with large partitions of compressed >> data. I am not asking you to write the code >> for me but as I am new a little guidance and help would be greatly >> appreciated as this seems like too much work for just a newbie. >> Thanks A lot, >> Nick >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in >> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > > > > -- > Gareth Pye > Level 2 Judge, Melbourne, Australia > Australian MTG Forum: mtgau.com > gareth@cerberos.id.au - www.rockpaperdynamite.wordpress.com > "Dear God, I would like to file a bug report" Gareth I am asking for advice on not writing the code but can someone please test this for me as I don't have many hard drives lying around. In addition I am new to btrfs , so I would like to known if this is a good idea or should I just drop it? Nick -- 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/