Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761551AbXHEJEv (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Aug 2007 05:04:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752405AbXHEJEo (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Aug 2007 05:04:44 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:48368 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751147AbXHEJEn (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Aug 2007 05:04:43 -0400 Message-ID: <46B5929B.8070301@garzik.org> Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2007 05:04:27 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar CC: Alan Cox , J??rn Engel , Linus Torvalds , Peter Zijlstra , linux-mm@kvack.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , miklos@szeredi.hu, akpm@linux-foundation.org, neilb@suse.de, dgc@sgi.com, tomoki.sekiyama.qu@hitachi.com, nikita@clusterfs.com, trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no, yingchao.zhou@gmail.com, richard@rsk.demon.co.uk, david@lang.hm Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8 References: <20070804163733.GA31001@elte.hu> <46B4C0A8.1000902@garzik.org> <20070804191205.GA24723@lazybastard.org> <20070804192130.GA25346@elte.hu> <20070804211156.5f600d80@the-village.bc.nu> <20070804202830.GA4538@elte.hu> <20070804210351.GA9784@elte.hu> <20070804225121.5c7b66e0@the-village.bc.nu> <20070805073709.GA6325@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20070805073709.GA6325@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.3 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.9 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.3 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 765 Lines: 22 Ingo Molnar wrote: > Distro makers did not dare to do this sooner because some kernel > developers came forward with these mostly bogus arguments ... The impact > of atime is far better understood by the kernel community, so it is the > responsibility of _us_ to signal such things towards distributors, not > the other way around. Pretty much. AFAICS there was never a "policy decision" on the part of distro makers to begin with. The kernel had its default -- atime -- and the distros ran with that. Jeff - 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/