linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/4] promote zcache from staging

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Date:	Tue, 31 Jul 2012 13:51:42 -0400
From:	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@...cle.com>,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	Seth Jennings <sjenning@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@...nok.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Robert Jennings <rcj@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] promote zcache from staging

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 09:19:16AM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 11:58:43AM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > So in my head I feel that it is Ok to:
> > 1) address the concerns that zcache has before it is unstaged
> > 2) rip out the two-engine system with a one-engine system
> >    (and see how well it behaves)
> > 3) sysfs->debugfs as needed
> > 4) other things as needed
> > 
> > I think we are getting hung-up what Greg said about adding features
> > and the two-engine->one engine could be understood as that.
> > While I think that is part of a staging effort to clean up the
> > existing issues. Lets see what Greg thinks.
> 
> Greg has no idea, except I want to see the needed fixups happen before
> new features get added.  Add the new features _after_ it is out of
> staging.

I think we (that is me, Seth, Minchan, Dan) need to talk to have a good
understanding of what each of us thinks are fixups.

Would Monday Aug 6th at 1pm EST on irc.freenode.net channel #zcache work
for people?

> 
> greg k-h
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