Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762137AbYAZQMZ (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jan 2008 11:12:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755436AbYAZQBJ (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jan 2008 11:01:09 -0500 Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.178]:10473 "EHLO py-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755307AbYAZQBG (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jan 2008 11:01:06 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=ppS7cz/Ro8EbIwOXdLg++hYNNOYnQK5POBKRO4w/14nEvXnOWYYLiz26e+vZJqnKsnTAad1qzDmvgo3rMv6p8m429ti0vrBEC51QV10NZL1AFx0L62lVTzHdiNGjsj5zpDblPC4RS+7n3xIjTNYB1tz30sdBgY43OP9zuieFv5Q= Message-ID: <2f11576a0801260801n653142c5i1caa3ceed2fe01d4@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 01:01:03 +0900 From: "KOSAKI Motohiro" To: "Al Boldi" Subject: Re: Kernel Event Notifications (was: [RFC] Parallelize IO for e2fsck) Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200801261655.31313.a1426z@gawab.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <9Mo9w-7Ws-25@gated-at.bofh.it> <20080124234037.GJ15858@mit.edu> <2f11576a0801260432y4405d817p6ef4005d06189654@mail.gmail.com> <200801261655.31313.a1426z@gawab.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: e312337b79df203b Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 910 Lines: 26 Hi Al > > the mem_notify patch can realize "just before starting swapping" > > notification :) > > > > to be honest, I don't know fs guys requirement. > > if lacking feature of fs guys needed, I implement it with presure if > > you tell me it. > > These notifications are really useful, but it may be much wiser to pipe them > thru some kevent-notification sub-system, instead of introducing kernel > notifier-chain end-points left, right, and center. Aaahh Your feelings are understood well. but current design is decided through many poeple discussion. if anybody need kevent notification, I will add it to the current implementation instead replace. thanks. -- 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/