Hi > Interesting patch series (I am being yuppie and reading this thread > from my iPhone on a treadmill at the gym - so further comments later). > I think that this is broadly along the lines that I was thinking, but > this should be an RFC only patch series for now. sorry, I fixed at next post. > Some initial questions: Thank you. welcome to any discussion. > Where is the netlink interface? Polling an FD is so last century :) to be honest, I don't know anyone use netlink and why hope receive low memory notify by netlink. poll() is old way, but it works good enough. and, netlink have a bit weak point. end up, netlink philosophy is read/write model. I afraid to many low-mem message queued in netlink buffer at under heavy pressure. it cause degrade memory pressure. > Still, it is good to start with some code - eventually we might just > have a full reservation API created. Rik and I and others have bounced > ideas around for a while and I hope we can pitch in. I will play with > these patches later. Great. Welcome to any idea and any discussion. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
