Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756024Ab1EDWJa (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 May 2011 18:09:30 -0400 Received: from mail-ww0-f42.google.com ([74.125.82.42]:56798 "EHLO mail-ww0-f42.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753579Ab1EDWJ1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 May 2011 18:09:27 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=DQS19MOnc4/SkzeDy1Immb0YYNYpTVTs8RIHnPySaL+A6wWe1CpHUtRJVtZs90dAD1 cv1uQ+yprR6Lyk0rz098RmJHEvFbUpp639wvkS93MYmAsWWBCZC2awWUqW2Ej/EAbPtO 8gg43XDG1BviOZkEqxtZJSAeLXx7rSZ8nL3nM= Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 00:09:22 +0200 From: Andrea Righi To: Andrew Morton 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: <20110504220922.GA4811@linux.develer.com> References: <1303928027-5100-1-git-send-email-andrea@betterlinux.com> <20110504144411.7f32c00c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110504144411.7f32c00c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 818 Lines: 22 On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 02:44:11PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > 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? OK. :) -Andrea -- 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/