Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 17 Apr 2011 19:44:22 +0200 | | From | Marco Stornelli <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/12] IO-less dirty throttling v7 |
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Il 17/04/2011 11:30, Wu Fengguang ha scritto: > On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 03:31:54PM +0800, Marco Stornelli wrote: >> Il 16/04/2011 15:25, Wu Fengguang ha scritto: >>> Andrew, >>> >>> This revision undergoes a number of simplifications, cleanups and fixes. >>> Independent patches are separated out. The core patches (07, 08) now have >>> easier to understand changelog. Detailed rationals can be found in patch 08. >>> >>> In response to the complexity complaints, an introduction document is >>> written explaining the rationals, algorithm and visual case studies: >>> >>> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/wfg/writeback/slides/smooth-dirty-throttling.pdf >> >> It'd be great if you wrote a summary in the kernel documentation. > > Perhaps not in this stage. That will only frighten people away I'm > afraid. The main concerns now are "why the complexities?". People at > this time perhaps won't bother looking into any lengthy documents at > all. >
For the moment ok if you think we are in a not-ready-for-mainline yet. But for the final version the documentation would be welcome, maybe with the pdf as reference. The documentation is always the last thing but it's important! :)
Marco
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