Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] VFS: introduce s_dirty accessors
From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
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To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, tytso@mit.edu,
       linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:04:27 +0300
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On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 13:56 +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> Hi Linus,
> 
> would it be possible to add the following patch to your tree. I'm trying
> to lessen amount of useless wake-ups in the kernel, and the 'sync_supers'
> thread if one of those kernel threads which wakes up every 5 seconds to
> (mostly) do nothing.
> 
> This is still work in progress, but putting the below patch to your tree
> would make life easier at the next merge window. This patch just adds 3
> accessor functions, but no one will use them so fare, so it must be
> harmless. This was suggested by Ted and supported by Al:
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/6/9/216

Linus,

I wonder, you did not take this because of the vacation or because you
do not like it?

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)

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