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List:       linux-api
Subject:    Re: [PATCH v2] fadvise: introduce POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED_FS
From:       Andrea Righi <andrea () betterlinux ! com>
Date:       2011-05-04 22:09:22
Message-ID: 20110504220922.GA4811 () linux ! develer ! com
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On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 02:44:11PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 20:13:47 +0200
> Andrea Righi <andrea@betterlinux.com> wrote:
> 
> > Introduce a new fadvise flag to drop page cache pages of a single
> > filesystem.
> 
> I'm going to object to this on general principle.  We shouldn't toss
> new features into the kernel API just because we can.  Each feature
> needs a really good argument to justify its inclusion, and I don't
> believe that the case has been made for this feature.
> 
> IOW, who's going to die if we don't merge it?

OK. :)

-Andrea
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