On Tue, 28 Jan 2014, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 04:23:04AM -0800, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > I'm eager to participate in this year's LSF/MM, but no topics of my > > own to propose: I need to listen to what other people are suggesting. > > > > Topics of most interest to me span mm and fs: persistent memory and > > xip, transparent huge pagecache, large sectors, mm scalability. > > I don't want to particularly pick on Hugh here; indeed, I know he won't > take it personally which is why I've chosen to respoond to Hugh's message Sure, your remarks are completely appropriate, and very well directed. > rather than any of the others. I'm rather annoyed at the huge disrepancy > between the number of people who are *saying* they're interested in > persistent memory and the number of people who are reviewing patches > relating to persistent memory. It's fair enough, though, for people to express an interest in a topic, without having time to contribute to it beforehand. That does not earn anyone a place, but may help the committee to choose between topics. Frustrating for you, though; and for everyone else pushing a patchset. > > As far as I'm concerned, the only people who have "earned" their way into > attending the Summit based on contributing to persistent memory work > would be Dave Chinner (er ... on the ctte already), Ted Ts'o (ditto), > Jan Kara (ditto), Kirill Shutemov, Dave Hansen (who's not looking to > attend this year), Ross Zwisler (ditto), and Andreas Dilger. It might be a good idea to insist on significant review contributions in relevant areas as a condition for attendance. That's a matter for the committee to decide (I expect it's already taken into account), but it should help to improve our review rate. Counts me out, but that's okay. > > I'd particularly like a VM person to review these two patches: > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=138983598101510&w=2 > http://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=138983600001513&w=2 I'd love to give you a constructive answer, but I'm not going to comment on 2 out of 22 without getting to grips with the 22. You've been thinking about this stuff for months: others need time too, and this is far from the only patchset on their queues. Hugh -- 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
