From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060830124400.23ca9b38.akpm@osdl.org> 
References: <20060830124400.23ca9b38.akpm@osdl.org>  <20060829180552.32596.15290.stgit@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <20060829180634.32596.4507.stgit@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> 
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>, axboe@kernel.dk,
       linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 19/19] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable the block layer [try #6] 
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 21:13:12 +0100
Message-ID: <26780.1156968792@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com>
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Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:

> I think I'll just slam all this in at the first opportunity.  Stuff will
> break, but it will be easy to fix.

Well, it's into Jens's block GIT tree.

> If you try to upissue this patchset I shall be seeking an IP-routable hand
> grenade.

"upissue"?

> This function is misnamed and is implemented in the wrong place.  It's not
> really a block thing at all.  If/when/soon NFS starts to implement it and
> call it, things will need to be renamed and reshuffled.

Sounds this function then migrate to kernel/sched.c along with its baggage
train.

> So...  for now, I'll replace it with a simple io_schedule_timeout(timeout),
> which is equivalent to what we do now for network filesystems.

Please send the patch to Jens to make sure the block GIT tree gets fixed.

David
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