On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 12:42:08PM -0800, Hugh Dickins wrote: > 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. Thanks. You're a long-time contributor in so many ways to the VM that I know this won't prejudice the program committee against you. > > 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. Absolutely. And it might help convince the program committee to invite someone if they were seen to be active ... ;-) > > 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. The first one is stand-alone. It fixes a bug that has been around for years ... but nobody noticed because nobody uses XIP. The second is a little more involved with the rest of the patchset, and I'd totally understand anyone wanting to review it in conjunction with the rest of the patchset. -- Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step." -- 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
