On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 01:44:22AM +0800, Marco Stornelli wrote: > Il 17/04/2011 11:30, Wu Fengguang ha scritto: > > On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 03:31:54PM +0800, Marco Stornelli wrote: > >> Il 16/04/2011 15:25, Wu Fengguang ha scritto: > >>> Andrew, > >>> > >>> This revision undergoes a number of simplifications, cleanups and fixes. > >>> Independent patches are separated out. The core patches (07, 08) now have > >>> easier to understand changelog. Detailed rationals can be found in patch 08. > >>> > >>> In response to the complexity complaints, an introduction document is > >>> written explaining the rationals, algorithm and visual case studies: > >>> > >>> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/wfg/writeback/slides/smooth-dirty-throttling.pdf > >> > >> It'd be great if you wrote a summary in the kernel documentation. > > > > Perhaps not in this stage. That will only frighten people away I'm > > afraid. The main concerns now are "why the complexities?". People at > > this time perhaps won't bother looking into any lengthy documents at > > all. > > > > For the moment ok if you think we are in a not-ready-for-mainline yet. > But for the final version the documentation would be welcome, maybe with > the pdf as reference. The documentation is always the last thing but > it's important! :) No problem. I hope it still get the chance to get upstreamed :) Thanks, Fengguang -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>