On Tue, 24 Sep 2013 16:49:50 -0700 Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > At the very least we should get this done for a real filesystem to see > > how intrusive the changes are and to evaluate the performance changes. > > That would give even larger patches, and people already complain > the patchkit is too large. The thing is that merging an implementation for ramfs commits us to doing it for the major real filesystems. Before making that commitment we should at least have a pretty good understanding of what those changes will look like. Plus I don't see how we can realistically performance-test it without having real physical backing store in the picture? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>