From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail137.messagelabs.com (mail137.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.19]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AF916B007E for ; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 03:32:35 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:32:32 -0800 (PST) From: Steve VanDeBogart Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: add fincore(2) (mincore(2) for file descriptors) In-Reply-To: <20100128002313.2b94344e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Message-ID: References: <20100120215712.GO27212@frostnet.net> <20100126141229.e1a81b29.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20100128002313.2b94344e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Andrew Morton Cc: Chris Frost , Heiko Carstens , Alexander Viro , Benny Halevy , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 28 Jan 2010, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:42:35 -0800 (PST) Steve VanDeBogart wrote: > >>> Is it likely that these changes to SQLite and Gimp would be merged into >>> the upstream applications? >> >> Changes to the GIMP fit nicely into the code structure, so it's feasible >> to push this kind of optimization upstream. The changes in SQLite are >> a bit more focused on the benchmark, but a more general approach is not >> conceptually difficult. SQLite may not want the added complexity, but >> other database may be interested in the performance improvement. >> >> Of course, these kernel changes are needed before any application can >> optimize its IO as we did with libprefetch. > > That didn't really answer my question. > > If there's someone signed up and motivated to do the hard work of > getting these changes integrated into the upstream applications then > that makes us more interested. If, however it was some weekend > proof-of-concept hack which shortly dies an instadeath then... meh, > not so much. Sorry I misunderstood. The maintainer of GraphicsMagick has already contacted us about making changes similar to our GIMP changes. So yes, there is interest in really using these changes. -- Steve -- 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