From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from westrelay02.boulder.ibm.com (westrelay02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.11]) by e34.co.us.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id jAANfLBU008257 for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 18:41:21 -0500 Received: from d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (d03av02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.168]) by westrelay02.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.10/NCO/VERS6.8) with ESMTP id jAANfFhE075748 for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 16:41:15 -0700 Received: from d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.13.3) with ESMTP id jAANfKJj002680 for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 16:41:21 -0700 Subject: Re: [RFC] sys_punchhole() From: Badari Pulavarty In-Reply-To: <20051110153254.5dde61c5.akpm@osdl.org> References: <1131664994.25354.36.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20051110153254.5dde61c5.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 15:41:02 -0800 Message-Id: <1131666062.25354.41.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: andrea@suse.de, hugh@veritas.com, lkml , linux-mm List-ID: On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 15:32 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Badari Pulavarty 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 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org