From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pa0-f45.google.com (mail-pa0-f45.google.com [209.85.220.45]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CABE6B0037 for ; Tue, 28 Jan 2014 15:42:50 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-pa0-f45.google.com with SMTP id lf10so835812pab.18 for ; Tue, 28 Jan 2014 12:42:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail-pd0-x22a.google.com (mail-pd0-x22a.google.com [2607:f8b0:400e:c02::22a]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id y1si16712689pbm.244.2014.01.28.12.42.49 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 28 Jan 2014 12:42:49 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail-pd0-f170.google.com with SMTP id p10so815165pdj.29 for ; Tue, 28 Jan 2014 12:42:48 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 12:42:08 -0800 (PST) From: Hugh Dickins Subject: Re: [LSF/MM ATTEND] persistent transparent large In-Reply-To: <20140128193833.GD20939@parisc-linux.org> Message-ID: References: <20140128193833.GD20939@parisc-linux.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Matthew Wilcox Cc: lsf-pc@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 28 Jan 2014, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 04:23:04AM -0800, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > I'm eager to participate in this year's LSF/MM, but no topics of my > > own to propose: I need to listen to what other people are suggesting. > > > > Topics of most interest to me span mm and fs: persistent memory and > > xip, transparent huge pagecache, large sectors, mm scalability. > > I don't want to particularly pick on Hugh here; indeed, I know he won't > take it personally which is why I've chosen to respoond to Hugh's message Sure, your remarks are completely appropriate, and very well directed. > rather than any of the others. I'm rather annoyed at the huge disrepancy > between the number of people who are *saying* they're interested in > persistent memory and the number of people who are reviewing patches > relating to persistent memory. It's fair enough, though, for people to express an interest in a topic, without having time to contribute to it beforehand. That does not earn anyone a place, but may help the committee to choose between topics. Frustrating for you, though; and for everyone else pushing a patchset. > > As far as I'm concerned, the only people who have "earned" their way into > attending the Summit based on contributing to persistent memory work > would be Dave Chinner (er ... on the ctte already), Ted Ts'o (ditto), > Jan Kara (ditto), Kirill Shutemov, Dave Hansen (who's not looking to > attend this year), Ross Zwisler (ditto), and Andreas Dilger. It might be a good idea to insist on significant review contributions in relevant areas as a condition for attendance. That's a matter for the committee to decide (I expect it's already taken into account), but it should help to improve our review rate. Counts me out, but that's okay. > > I'd particularly like a VM person to review these two patches: > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=138983598101510&w=2 > http://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=138983600001513&w=2 I'd love to give you a constructive answer, but I'm not going to comment on 2 out of 22 without getting to grips with the 22. You've been thinking about this stuff for months: others need time too, and this is far from the only patchset on their queues. Hugh -- 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