From: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: andrea@suse.de, hugh@veritas.com,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] sys_punchhole()
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 15:41:02 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1131666062.25354.41.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051110153254.5dde61c5.akpm@osdl.org>
On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 15:32 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> >
> > We discussed this in madvise(REMOVE) thread - to add support
> > for sys_punchhole(fd, offset, len) to complete the functionality
> > (in the future).
> >
> > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-mm&m=113036713810002&w=2
> >
> > What I am wondering is, should I invest time now to do it ?
>
> I haven't even heard anyone mention a need for this in the past 1-2 years.
>
> > Or wait till need arises ?
>
> A long wait, I suspect..
>
Okay. I guess, I will wait till someone needs it.
I am just trying to increase my chances of "getting my madvise(REMOVE)
patch into mainline" :)
Thanks,
Badari
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-10 23:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-10 23:23 Badari Pulavarty
2005-11-10 23:32 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-10 23:41 ` Badari Pulavarty [this message]
2005-11-10 23:55 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2005-11-11 8:25 ` Ingo Oeser
2005-11-11 19:07 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-11-16 12:08 ` Rob Landley
2005-11-16 12:20 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-11-13 15:09 ` Pavel Machek
2005-11-16 22:01 ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-11-16 23:37 ` Ric Wheeler
2005-11-21 6:46 ` Rob Landley
2005-11-18 16:42 ` Ragnar Kjørstad
2005-11-18 16:54 ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-11-11 5:18 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-11-16 16:05 ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-11-16 16:38 ` Anton Altaparmakov
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