Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Tux3 for review | Date | Sat, 21 Jun 2014 20:32:03 -0700 |
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On Saturday, June 21, 2014 12:29:01 PM PDT, James Bottomley wrote: > On Thu, 2014-06-19 at 14:58 -0700, Daniel Phillips wrote: >> We already removed 450 lines of core kernel workarounds from Tux3 with an >> approach that was literally cut and pasted from one of Dave's >> emails. Then >> Dave changed his mind. Now the Tux3 team has been assigned a research >> project to improve core kernel writeback instead of simply adapting the >> approach that is already proven to work well enough. That is a rather >> blatant example of "perfect is the enemy of good enough". Please read the >> thread. > > That's a bit disingenuous: the concern has always been how page forking > interacted with writeback. It's not new, it was one of the major things > brought up at LSF 14 months ago, so you weren't just assigned this.
[citation needed]
Regards,
Daniel
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