Re: [PATCH 10/28] FS-Cache: Recruit a couple of page flags for cache management [try #2]

From: Nick Piggin
Date: Wed Jan 09 2008 - 18:52:48 EST


On Thursday 10 January 2008 02:45, David Howells wrote:
> Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > It is to make everybody happy. Especially in code that everyone works
> > on like mm/ and fs/, you can't just have everybody following their own
> > slightly different conventions.
>
> Conventions are what people agree they are.

Yes, David :)


> Anyway, I've attached a revised page flags patch if you can take a quick
> look over that.

Still has funny hunks in pagemap.h and filemap.c. At a quick glance
I guess it is better, but can you please point me to the messages
where people have objected to my suggested way of doing it?

Thanks,
Nick
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