Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 5 May 2011 00:09:22 +0200 | From | Andrea Righi <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] fadvise: introduce POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED_FS |
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On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 02:44:11PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 20:13:47 +0200 > Andrea Righi <andrea@betterlinux.com> 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
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