Re: [RFC] Tux3 for review

[Daniel Phillips]

On Saturday, June 21, 2014 12:29:01 PM PDT, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-06-19 at 14:58 -0700, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > We already removed 450 lines of core kernel workarounds from Tux3 with 
an 
> > approach that was literally cut and pasted from one of Dave's 
> > emails. Then 
> > Dave changed his mind. Now the Tux3 team has been assigned a research 
> > project to improve core kernel writeback instead of simply adapting the 
> > approach that is already proven to work well enough. That is a rather 
> > blatant example of "perfect is the enemy of good enough". Please read 
the 
> > thread.
>
> That's a bit disingenuous: the concern has always been how page forking
> interacted with writeback.  It's not new, it was one of the major things
> brought up at LSF 14 months ago, so you weren't just assigned this.

[citation needed]

Regards,

Daniel
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