Re: [PATCH v2] fadvise: introduce POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED_FS

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On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 20:13:47 +0200
Andrea Righi <andrea@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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?
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