From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail143.messagelabs.com (mail143.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.35]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D7056B004D for ; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:38:02 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4A898752.9000205@tmr.com> Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:37:38 -0400 From: Bill Davidsen MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Discard support (was Re: [PATCH] swap: send callback when swap slot is freed) References: <200908122007.43522.ngupta@vflare.org> <20090813151312.GA13559@linux.intel.com> <20090813162621.GB1915@phenom2.trippelsdorf.de> <87f94c370908131115r680a7523w3cdbc78b9e82373c@mail.gmail.com> <3e8340490908131354q167840fcv124ec56c92bbb830@mail.gmail.com> <4A85E0DC.9040101@rtr.ca> <20090814234539.GE27148@parisc-linux.org> <1250341176.4159.2.camel@mulgrave.site> <4A86B69C.7090001@rtr.ca> <1250344518.4159.4.camel@mulgrave.site> <20090816150530.2bae6d1f@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20090816083434.2ce69859@infradead.org> <1250437927.3856.119.camel@mulgrave.site> <4A8834B6.2070104@rtr.ca> <1250446047.3856.273.camel@mulgrave.site> <4A884D9C.3060603@rtr.ca> <1250447052.3856.294.camel@mulgrave.site> In-Reply-To: <1250447052.3856.294.camel@mulgrave.site> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: James Bottomley Cc: Mark Lord , Arjan van de Ven , Alan Cox , Chris Worley , Matthew Wilcox , Bryan Donlan , david@lang.hm, Greg Freemyer , Markus Trippelsdorf , Matthew Wilcox , Hugh Dickins , Nitin Gupta , Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Linux RAID List-ID: James Bottomley wrote: > On Sun, 2009-08-16 at 14:19 -0400, Mark Lord wrote: > >> James Bottomley wrote: >> >>> Heh, OS writers not having access to the devices is about par for the >>> current course. >>> >> .. >> >> Pity the Linux Foundation doesn't simply step in and supply hardware >> to us for new tech like this. Cheap for them, expensive for folks like me. >> > > Um, to give a developer a selection of manufacturers' SSDs at retail > prices, you're talking several thousand dollars ... in these lean > times, that would be two or three developers not getting travel > sponsorship per chosen SSD recipient. It's not a worthwhile tradeoff. > > The best the LF can likely do is try to explain to the manufacturers > that handing out samples at linux conferences (like plumbers) is in > their own interests. It can also manage the handout if necessary > through its HW lending library. > Of install the hardware on a machine and give people access to the machine in time slots. Faster than FedEx-ing the hardware, and relatively fast to reinstall the OS from scratch. Testing of this type doesn't need huge bandwidth. -- bill davidsen CTO TMR Associates, Inc "You are disgraced professional losers. And by the way, give us our money back." - Representative Earl Pomeroy, Democrat of North Dakota on the A.I.G. executives who were paid bonuses after a federal bailout. -- 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