Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 12:06:15PM -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote: >> Nick Piggin wrote: >> >>> So. Firstly, what I'm looking at is doing swap writeout from pdflush. This >>> patch does that (working in concept, but pdflush and background writeout >>> from dirty inode list isn't really up to the task, might scrap it and do the >>> writeout from kswap). But writeout from radix-tree should actually be able to >>> give better swapout pattern than LRU writepage as well. >> Patch is missing from the message. > > It's no longer acceptable to post descriptions of what you're about to > do? You have to invest lots of time into creating a patch and testing that > it works before posting it (only to have it shot down because someone > disagrees with the design of your solution)? Really? The text says that a patch was included.... So I was expecting it.... But the problem you mention is real. Tried numerous times to get a conceptual discussion going without a patch. Usually that does not lead to anything. -- 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
