From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <46B5929B.8070301@garzik.org> Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2007 05:04:27 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8 References: <20070804163733.GA31001@elte.hu> <46B4C0A8.1000902@garzik.org> <20070804191205.GA24723@lazybastard.org> <20070804192130.GA25346@elte.hu> <20070804211156.5f600d80@the-village.bc.nu> <20070804202830.GA4538@elte.hu> <20070804210351.GA9784@elte.hu> <20070804225121.5c7b66e0@the-village.bc.nu> <20070805073709.GA6325@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20070805073709.GA6325@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Alan Cox , J??rn Engel , Linus Torvalds , Peter Zijlstra , linux-mm@kvack.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , miklos@szeredi.hu, akpm@linux-foundation.org, neilb@suse.de, dgc@sgi.com, tomoki.sekiyama.qu@hitachi.com, nikita@clusterfs.com, trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no, yingchao.zhou@gmail.com, richard@rsk.demon.co.uk, david@lang.hm List-ID: Ingo Molnar wrote: > Distro makers did not dare to do this sooner because some kernel > developers came forward with these mostly bogus arguments ... The impact > of atime is far better understood by the kernel community, so it is the > responsibility of _us_ to signal such things towards distributors, not > the other way around. Pretty much. AFAICS there was never a "policy decision" on the part of distro makers to begin with. The kernel had its default -- atime -- and the distros ran with that. Jeff -- 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