Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755756Ab1EDVpG (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 May 2011 17:45:06 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:49819 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753818Ab1EDVpD (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 May 2011 17:45:03 -0400 Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 14:44:11 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Andrea Righi Cc: Dave Chinner , Mike Frysinger , Al Viro , Arnd Bergmann , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] fadvise: introduce POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED_FS Message-Id: <20110504144411.7f32c00c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1303928027-5100-1-git-send-email-andrea@betterlinux.com> References: <1303928027-5100-1-git-send-email-andrea@betterlinux.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.0.2 (GTK+ 2.20.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 714 Lines: 17 On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 20:13:47 +0200 Andrea Righi wrote: > Introduce a new fadvise flag to drop page cache pages of a single > filesystem. I'm going to object to this on general principle. We shouldn't toss new features into the kernel API just because we can. Each feature needs a really good argument to justify its inclusion, and I don't believe that the case has been made for this feature. IOW, who's going to die if we don't merge it? -- 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/