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

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Date:	Mon, 6 Aug 2012 18:47:54 +0300
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
To:	Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@...cle.com>
Cc:	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
	Konrad Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	Seth Jennings <sjenning@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.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 Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 6:24 PM, Dan Magenheimer
<dan.magenheimer@...cle.com> wrote:
> IMHO, the fastest way to get the best zcache into the kernel and
> to distros and users is to throw away the "demo" version, move forward
> to a new solid well-designed zcache code base, and work together to
> build on it.  There's still a lot to do so I hope we can work together.

I'm not convinced it's the _fastest way_. You're effectively
invalidating all the work done under drivers/staging so you might end up
in review limbo with your shiny new code...

AFAICT, your best bet is to first clean up zcache under driver/staging
and get that promoted under mm/zcache.c. You can then move on to the
more controversial ramster and figure out where to put the clustering
code, etc.

                        Pekka
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