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2012 Oct 26
0
the future of markdown, according to whom?
...ition-list tags for his blog entries! hey, i've never been one to argue for "semantic purity", so i don't care, but who wants to use that as a model?) in other words, i think it's too late to "unify" markdown. and that's even assuming that y'all are able to _agree_ how to resolve the inconsistencies, which is doubtful... which means that it's _really_ too late. far too late. and that's even more true if the effort is led by people like atwood and/or greenspan. they are highly skilled, to be sure, and deserve kudos for calling out the need, but t...
2018 Apr 22
0
[PATCH] kvmalloc: always use vmalloc if CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
...uch explicit with this reasoning when rejecting the patch. Do you still call that evil? > > he didn't want to fix alloc_pages sleeping when __GFP_NORETRY is used. > > The GFP flags are a mess, still. I do not remember that one but __GFP_NORETRY is _allowed_ to sleep. And yes I do _agree_ gfp flags are a mess which is really hard to get fixed because they are lacking a good design from the very beginning. Fixing some of those issues today is a completely PITA. > > So what should I say? Fix them and > > you won't be evil :-) > > No, you should reserve calling...
2018 Apr 21
4
[PATCH] kvmalloc: always use vmalloc if CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 05:21:26PM -0400, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > On Fri, 20 Apr 2018, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 04:54:53PM -0400, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > > > On Fri, 20 Apr 2018, Michal Hocko wrote: > > > > No way. This is just wrong! First of all, you will explode most likely > > > > on many allocations of small sizes. Second,
2018 Apr 21
4
[PATCH] kvmalloc: always use vmalloc if CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 05:21:26PM -0400, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > On Fri, 20 Apr 2018, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 04:54:53PM -0400, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > > > On Fri, 20 Apr 2018, Michal Hocko wrote: > > > > No way. This is just wrong! First of all, you will explode most likely > > > > on many allocations of small sizes. Second,
2018 Apr 23
2
[PATCH] kvmalloc: always use vmalloc if CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
...tinue working on GFP_NOIO refactoring as well as before. > > > he didn't want to fix alloc_pages sleeping when __GFP_NORETRY is used. > > > > The GFP flags are a mess, still. > > I do not remember that one but __GFP_NORETRY is _allowed_ to sleep. And > yes I do _agree_ gfp flags are a mess which is really hard to get fixed > because they are lacking a good design from the very beginning. Fixing > some of those issues today is a completely PITA. It may sleep, but if it sleeps regularly, it slows down swapping (because the swapping code does mempool_alloc a...
2018 Apr 23
2
[PATCH] kvmalloc: always use vmalloc if CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
...tinue working on GFP_NOIO refactoring as well as before. > > > he didn't want to fix alloc_pages sleeping when __GFP_NORETRY is used. > > > > The GFP flags are a mess, still. > > I do not remember that one but __GFP_NORETRY is _allowed_ to sleep. And > yes I do _agree_ gfp flags are a mess which is really hard to get fixed > because they are lacking a good design from the very beginning. Fixing > some of those issues today is a completely PITA. It may sleep, but if it sleeps regularly, it slows down swapping (because the swapping code does mempool_alloc a...
2011 Jul 14
5
can you see the future?
looks like my message from last week about writing tools was right on time... we are enjoying a display of fireworks now going off in this particular arena... fletcher started work on an editing app with markdown-preview built right in, after reporting on his blog that he had "seen the future" in ali's post last month, where ali debuted his syntax highlighter, and fletcher is