From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from alogconduit1ah.ccr.net (root@alogconduit1al.ccr.net [208.130.159.12]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA09796 for ; Sun, 23 May 1999 10:52:24 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCHES] References: From: ebiederm+eric@ccr.net (Eric W. Biederman) Date: 23 May 1999 09:54:53 -0500 In-Reply-To: Linus Torvalds's message of "Sat, 22 May 1999 23:03:00 -0700 (PDT)" Message-ID: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Linus Torvalds Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-mm@kvack.org, MOLNAR Ingo List-ID: >>>>> "LT" == Linus Torvalds writes: LT> On 22 May 1999, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> >> I've been busy working to improve the basic mechanisms of the >> page cache, and finally what appears to be a stable set of patches, with >> no hacks against 2.3.3 LT> I have three worries: LT> - this is large, with no input from anybody else that I have seen. Not much. I had aggreements in principal but no one else has looked at it real hard. LT> - I absolutely detest getting encoded patches. It makes it much harder LT> for me to just quickly look them over for an immediate feel for what LT> they look like. O.k. I do that for large patches because I'm paranoid about the mailers in between. . . LT> - Ingo just did the page cache / buffer cache dirty stuff, this is going LT> to clash quite badly with his changes I suspect. Interesting. I have been telling folks I've been working on this for quite a while. I wish I'd heard about him or vis versa. Ingo can I get a pointer to your work? Linus, I'll be resending the patches later today (church is in about 5 minutes). LT> The other worries I'll see about later. The short descriptions sound fine, Cool. If you agree with my work in principal, that makes life easier. Now I just need to worry about the details of my patches. Eric -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm my@address' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://humbolt.geo.uu.nl/Linux-MM/