linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8

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Message-ID: <20070806065712.GA2818@elte.hu>
Date:	Mon, 6 Aug 2007 08:57:12 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
Cc:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Claudio Martins <ctpm@....utl.pt>,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	Jörn Engel <joern@...fs.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	miklos@...redi.hu, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, neilb@...e.de,
	dgc@....com, tomoki.sekiyama.qu@...achi.com, nikita@...sterfs.com,
	trond.myklebust@....uio.no, yingchao.zhou@...il.com,
	richard@....demon.co.uk, david@...g.hm
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8

* Willy Tarreau <w@....eu> wrote:

> In your example above, maybe it's the opposite, users know they can 
> keep a file in /tmp one more week by simply cat'ing it.

sure - and i'm not arguing that noatime should the kernel-wide default. 
In every single patch i sent it was a .config option (and a boot option 
_and_ a sysctl option that i think you missed) that a user/distro 
enables or disabled. But i think the /tmp argument is not very strong: 
/tmp is fundamentally volatile, and you can grow dependencies on pretty 
much _any_ aspect of the kernel. So the question isnt "is there impact" 
(there is, at least for noatime), the question is "is it still worth 
doing it".

> Changing the kernel in a non-easily reversible way is not kind to the 
> users.

none of my patches did any of that...

anyway, my latest patch doesnt do noatime, it does the "more intelligent 
relatime" approach.

	Ingo
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