Re: [PATCH 00/12] IO-less dirty throttling v7

[Marco Stornelli]

Il 17/04/2011 11:30, Wu Fengguang ha scritto:
> On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 03:31:54PM +0800, Marco Stornelli wrote:
> > Il 16/04/2011 15:25, Wu Fengguang ha scritto:
> > > Andrew,
> > >
> > > This revision undergoes a number of simplifications, cleanups and fixes.
> > > Independent patches are separated out. The core patches (07, 08) now have
> > > easier to understand changelog. Detailed rationals can be found in patch 08.
> > >
> > > In response to the complexity complaints, an introduction document is
> > > written explaining the rationals, algorithm and visual case studies:
> > >
> > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/wfg/writeback/slides/smooth-dirty-throttling.pdf
> >
> > It'd be great if you wrote a summary in the kernel documentation.
>
> Perhaps not in this stage. That will only frighten people away I'm
> afraid. The main concerns now are "why the complexities?". People at
> this time perhaps won't bother looking into any lengthy documents at
> all.

For the moment ok if you think we are in a not-ready-for-mainline yet. 
But for the final version the documentation would be welcome, maybe with 
the pdf as reference. The documentation is always the last thing but 
it's important! :)

Marco
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