To: jens.axboe@oracle.com
CC: miklos@szeredi.hu, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
       akpm@linux-foundation.org, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au,
       linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-mm@kvack.org
In-reply-to: <E1KOGT8-0000rd-0Z@pomaz-ex.szeredi.hu> (message from Miklos
	Szeredi on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:32:14 +0200)
Subject: Re: [patch v3] splice: fix race with page invalidation
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From: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:43:52 +0200
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> On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > You snipped the part where Linus objected to dismissing the async
> > nature, I fully agree with that part.

And also note in what Nick said in the referenced mail: it would be
nice if someone actually _cared_ about the async nature.  The fact
that it has been broken from the start, and nobody noticed is a strong
hint that currently there isn't anybody who does.

Maybe fuse will be the first one to actually care, and then I'll
bother with putting a lot of effort into it.  But until someone cares,
nobody will bother, and that's how it should be.  That's very much in
line with the evoultionary nature of kernel developments: unused
features will just get broken and eventually removed.

Miklos
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