linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] Page I/O

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Message-ID: <20140414000831.GA30991@bbox>
Date:	Mon, 14 Apr 2014 09:08:31 +0900
From:	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
To:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@...el.com>
Cc:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	willy@...ux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] Page I/O

On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 06:59:49PM -0400, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> Now that 3.15-rc1 is out, could you queue these patches for 3.16 please?
> Patches 1-3 & 7 are, IMO, worthwhile cleanups / bug fixes, regardless
> of the rest of the patch set.
> 
> If this patch series gets in, I'll take care of including the NVMe
> driver piece.  It'll be a bit more tricky than the proof of concept that
> I've been flashing around because we have to make sure that the device
> responds better to page sized I/Os than accumulating larger I/Os.
> 
> It's indisputably a win for brd and for other NVM technology devices
> that are accessed synchronously rather than through DMA.

FYI, It would be good for zram, too.
I support this patchset.

>-- 
Kind regards,
Minchan Kim
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